The Tutors

In Erica Lipez’s play The Tutors, Joe and Toby, along with the many other residents of New York City who work a job in order to do something else, tutor high school students. Heidi anonymously helps write college admissions’ essays online. Together, they run a friendship-finding website from their apartment, except that their work with students starts to invade their lives and, in Heidi’s case, her subconscious. The Tutors by Erica Lipez tests what people who are so plugged into the digital world and online friendship do when confronted by the real thing.