THE MONSTERS at City Center (MTC)?
THE MONSTERS at City Center (MTC)?
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#1THE MONSTERS at City Center (MTC)?
Posted: 1/28/26 at 11:31am
Has anyone seen this? Any reviews yet?
#2THE MONSTERS at City Center (MTC)?
Posted: 1/28/26 at 11:49am
The play had a pre-New York engagement at Two River Theater in Red Bank last fall. It got pretty good reviews there. Here's the NJ dot com review:
https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2025/11/the-monsters-is-a-moving-story-of-sibling-love-on-nj-stage-review.html
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#3THE MONSTERS at City Center (MTC)?
Posted: 1/28/26 at 12:00pm
I posted briefly about this in the snowstorm thread. I saw the second preview on Saturday and all I can say is WOW. This is already a contender for one of my favorite plays of the year, if ever.
The play is staged with the audience on 3 sides and there isn’t a bad view at all regardless of your seat. The premise of the play is, essentially, an estranged pair of siblings, separated by time, age, and traumatic life events, reunite at an MMA match and attempt to embark on rediscovering their relationship. However, both siblings are continually faced with their demons and how they have shaped the “monsters” they’ve become (one of many meanings behind the title). It manages to subvert a lot of the potential pitfalls that could make it feel sentimental, and goes out of its way to avoid it as often as possible.
Aigner Mizelle and Oak Onaodowan are giving some of the most visceral, physical, and emotional performances I’ve seen put to a stage. They seldom ever leave the stage and are basically doing a 100-minute full body workout between individual training sequences (including some balletic hybrid fight choreography by Rickey Tripp and others) and pair fights between Mizelle and Onaodowan. With regards to the “book” (non-fight) scenes, both performers have crafted and curated very lived-in characters. The intimacy of the staging and venue does not allow the performers to escape their characters, and so they are locked in, and from the jump, you are locked in with them.
I HIGHLY recommend seeing this if you can. The run ends in early March and has been selling well, but is popping up on TDF and the 35 under 35 for MTC is also available for later run performances.
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#1THE MONSTERS at City Center (MTC)?
Posted: 1/28/26 at 12:10pm
Theyre having the party for young folk, has anyone been? I’ve never been to one hosted by mtc
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