Tracy Letts' 1996 play Bug is getting a Broadway bow via Manhattan Theatre Club, with previews scheduled to begin at their Samuel J. Friedman Theatre December 18 ahead of a January 8, 2026 opening night. We've got a first look at the production's key art, featuring stars Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age) and Namir Smallwood (Pass Over). Take a look below!
David Cromer is directing the new production, which comes to the Main Stem after a previous run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
The full cast of the 2021 Chicago production will reprise their performances on Broadway, including Coon as Agnes White, Smallwood as Peter Evans, Randall Arney (You Can’t Take it With You) as Dr. Sweet, Jennifer Engstrom (Sweet Bird of Youth) as R.C., and Steve Key (Sweat) as Jerry Goss.
Coon, Letts' offstage wife, will be returning to Broadway for the first time since her debut performance in the 2012 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which she starred as Honey opposite Letts, also a Steppenwolf transfer. She has spent the bulk of her career on the screen, including playing Bertha Russell in HBO's Broadway star-packed The Gilded Age and the recent season of The White Lotus.
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Set in a seedy Oklahoma motel room, Bug centers on the unlikely romance between a lonely waitress and a mysterious and paranoid drifter. The longer they talk, the more the waitress begins to adopt his neuroses. The work premiered at London's Gate Theatre in 1996, with a revised version playing Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre in 2004, winning the Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards for Best Play. A movie adaptation was released in 2006.
Further creative team members are to be announced.
Bug joins a 2025-2026 MTC season that includes James Graham's Punch and David Lindsay-Abaire's The Balusters on Broadway, the former beginning next month; and Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters and a new musical to be announced Off-Broadway at New York City Center.
