By Samuel L. Leiter February 21, 2026: Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at NY City Center Stage II, is one of those rare evenings in the theater when you feel a playwright‑director working at the absolute height of her powers. The piece is, on its surface, a story about two siblings who have built their adult lives around the punishing world of MMA fighting. But Anyanwu uses t…
