About the Show

A new algorithm challenges friends’ control over their own life choices.

After achieving major success in Silicon Valley, tech entrepreneur Nick introduces his three closest friends to a powerful new algorithm designed to make life decisions more effectively than human judgment. Promising to analyze choices with unprecedented precision, the technology offers guidance on major personal and professional questions, encouraging users to place their trust in its recommendations.

As the friends begin to engage with the system, they are forced to confront questions about autonomy, identity, and the role of technology in shaping human behavior. Written by Andrew Stein, the play examines the tension between data-driven certainty and individual free will in an increasingly technology-dependent world.

Critic Reviews (7)

"Disruption's program art depicts a classic still life, all candles and fruits and flowers — and a phone emitting a blinding white light."
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"It wants to rattle your nerves, but it sometimes has trouble getting to the point."
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"This timely and thought-provoking play is worth seeing, but the best part will be the encore. The conversation that follows when you leave the theater."
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John David Washington, who made a memorable Broadway debut in the 2022 revival of ‘The Piano Lesson,’ brings a similar sly hustler’s energy to a quick-witted tech bro whose biggest hook is his own armor of success and invincibility. ★★★☆☆
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“Though the future it casts is bleak, this cautionary tale is strong.”
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3.5 stars “With sharp performances . . . Disruption attempts to take us to a future we don’t want to know.”
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Stein does a good job making the audience question what we would do if we were ever offered this hypothetical offer. Or have we already crossed the line and Disruption’s warning is already moot.
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