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

June Squibb (Marjorie) and Cynthia Nixon (Tess) in Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime , directed by Anne Kauffman, Second Stage/Hayes Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus. Jordan Harrison’s  Marjorie Prime , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was first produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons in 2015. Back then, this excellent futuristic play about bereaved people using AI avatars of their deceased loved ones for comfort and companionship struck me as a remarkably imaginative though