A Silicon Valley entrepreneur thinks he can outdo the human brain. It’s a tale as old as the Hewlett-Packard Company, and it’s the subject of Andrew Stein’s latest play, Disruption. Nick, a tech savant, presents his three best friends with his latest innovation: an algorithm to optimize their personal lives. Unbeknown to his friends, who start using the technology to decide when to have children and if they should end their marriages, Nick is already using them as test subjects, hoping to prove the efficacy of the algorithm to investors. Hersh Ellis directs. —Jensen Davis