As the title implies, the final play in Matthew Gasda’s Dimes Square trilogy is a eulogy to the scene that sprang up post-pandemic in the no man’s land between New York’s Chinatown and Lower East Side. As Gasda clarified in a 2022 article for AIR MAIL, “it’s not a square, by the way—it’s a feeling.” The Last Days of Downtown, a sequel to Zoomers and Dimes Square (the latter starring Christian Lorentzen), takes place across familiar Dimes Square watering holes and features a familiar ensemble of “actors, writers, crypto guys, scene girls, exes, and hangers-on.” The result is something between a satire and a love letter to the scene that both enthralls and suffocates its chronicler. —Paulina Prosnitz