The Monsters tickets

See this showdown between younger sister and older brother. Not just any showdown: a fight. The Monsters plays off Broadway this winter in a world premiere co-production at Manhattan Theatre Club with Two River Theater in New Jersey. Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, The Last of the Love Letters) writes and directs this new play that packs a wallop in its fierce examination of family, gender, and competition.

Experience The Monsters off Broadway, playing at New York City Center, and meet LIL and BIG. LIL's a fighter, but her older brother BIG is more famous in that arena. However, as LIL's appetite for a big fight grows, BIG's reputation wanes: he's an aging star in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. LIL has been training from afar... until she shows up on her big brother's doorstep, challenging him to a single match.

Away from your sibling for years, do wounds heal or fester? A story about the reunions, resentment, reconnection, rivalry, and bond between siblings — and wrestling with demons that never quite go away — The Monsters is a singular new play from a shimmering voice.

Anyanwu is a 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner and recently had the world premiere of her newest play Leroy and Lucy at The Steppenwolf Theatre during the fall of 2024. Her other plays have also won acclaim: Good Grief was on the Kilroys List 2016 and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and won the Humanitas Award. Ngozi also has been commissioned by NYU, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, The Atlantic Theater, and Steppenwolf.