Aigner Mizzelle (Lil) and Okieriete Onaodowan (Big) in Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters at Manhattan Theatre Club's NY City Center Stage II. Photo: Christian Heino. Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It’s a sweet play, directed by the author at MTC’s City Center, written in a spare, mellifluous vernacular that fits well with its athlet

Karan Brar as Maneesh and Brandon Flynn as Jonah in Matthew Libby's Data , directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Lucille Lortel Theatre. Photo: T. Charles Erickson. At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the internet, to anyone who would listen, about the dangers of relinquishing our personal data and privacy to tech companies. In all that time, the most demoralizing part of my campaign has been the generational divide in who would listen.

Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Tracy Letts's Bug , directed by David Cromer at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Photo: Matthew Murphy. Bug  is a thoughtfully creepy psycho-thriller, set in a Texas motel, about a seemingly likeable yet seriously deranged ex-soldier who plunges deep down the rabbit hole of imagined government conspiracies. It’s very sexy, with several scenes of frontal nudity, and its lead role was unforgettably originated two decades ago by a heartbreakingly y