Broadway producer Scott Rudin’s big comeback project has failed. “Little Bear Ridge Road,” starring Laurie Metcalf, was supposed to play through February 2026. Instead, the Road will close on December 21s…

The play, which was originally scheduled to close on December 30, will now play its final performance at Broadway’s Booth Theatre on December 21.

Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road, starring two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, is closing early. The play, which was originally scheduled to close on December 30, will now play it…

“Little Bear Ridge Road,” an acclaimed drama with Laurie Metcalf that marked Scott Rudin’s first Broadway production since controversy erupted over his alleged bullying behavior, will close eight weeks ea…

Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road, the play starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock that marked the Broadway return of producer Scott Rudin, will end its limited engagement two months early after posi…

The play will now close Dec. 21 rather than the originally announced Feb. 15.

Scott Rudin's Broadway producing return will take its final bow two months earlier than originally announced.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Little Bear Ridge Road, the new play by Samuel D. Hunter, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, with direction by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, will close earlier than e…

The lauded play by Samuel D. Hunter is the first production of Scott Rudin’s comeback season. Despite positive reviews, sales have been soft.

 Visually, Little Bear Ridge Road is minimalist – solely a circular platform with a sofa – appropriate because the script calls for it to be surrounded by a black void. But emotionally, it uses that to foc…

The Tony nominee is currently starring opposite Metcalf in Samuel D. Hunter's emotional family drama on Broadway

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All it took was Laurie Metcalf and Little Bear Ridge Road.

The Broadway Theatre Review: Little Bear Ridge Road By Ross The shadow of an overhead fan engulfs the space with its stark rhythm and cold lines. It fits perfectly alongside a shiny plastic covered couch that t…

By Paulanne Simmons November 26, 2025: Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road has almost no set (Scott Pask) and not much by way of costumes (Jessica Pabst). One might think the writer, producers and dire…

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter's new Broadway offering Little Bear Ridge Road stars two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Tony nominee Micah Stock as an estranged aunt and nephew thrust back into each other’…

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter talks about the inspiration behind LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD, working with Laurie Metcalf and more with Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens. Get tickets to LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROA…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/23/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Laurie Metcalf is back treading the boards in Little Bear Ridge Road, the new Broadway play now running at the Booth Theatre. On Tuesday, the Tony winner visited Live with Kelly and Mark to talk all about it. D…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Chess, Little Bear Ridge Road, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ New World Stages, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on November 20 to confirm the eligibility status of nine Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the first time this season that the committee met to…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met to confirm the eligibility status of nine Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the first time this season that the Tony Awards Administration Comm…

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John Drea is currently making his Broadway debut as James/Kenny algonside Laurie Metcalf, Micah Stock, and more in Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road. Drea's previous stage credits include Little Bear Ri…

With only two main characters and a beige couch, Little Bear Ridge Road, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale and FX’s Emmy Award winning show Baskets) depends entirely on language, script and acting. Fo…

However, like its characters in their narrow world, the play itself—which premiered last year at Chicago’s dynamic Steppenwolf Theatre—seems small and isolated on a Broadway stage, even at the relatively …

The Fall 2025 season is in full swing, and with it, comes new plays for theatre lovers of all kinds. Whether you live for intense dramas or would rather escape with zaney comedies, there's something for everyon…

Laurie Metcalf as Sarah and Micah Stock as Ethan in “Little Bear Ridge Road” (photo by Julia Cervantes).November 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. In 1984, I attended a performance of …

Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road, now playing at the Booth Theatre, drops us into the emotional wreckage of two deeply wounded people — and doesn’t offer much more than that. Directed with quiet …

By Stuart Miller... As Sarah she sneers and snarks her commentary on life but her actions reveal a hidden heart. The post Laurie Metcalf Gives “Little Bear Ridge Road” its Heart, Soul and Laughs. appeared f…

In Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” currently playing at the Booth Theatre, James, an astrophysics graduate student, explains to his boyfriend Ethan that the three stars forming Orion’s Belt…

The holidays are on the horizon, but Broadway is in a joyous mood. Here’s what's in store on this week's episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal.  It’s good to see her, isn’t it? Host Fadal catch…

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the …

Little Bear Ridge Road, the new Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, is officially open at the Booth Theatre. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter celebrated his long-awaited Broadway debut after more …

Plus, Laurie Metcalf contends for her seventh Tony nomination for 'Little Bear Ridge Road'

“I don’t know how to be a person.” That heartbreaking line serves as the template for Micah Stock’s beautifully nuanced performance in Little Bear Ridge Road, the overdue Broadway debut of playwright Sa…

Little Bear Ridge Road — the highly anticipated new play by the acclaimed writer Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale) — released production photos and a video montage ahead of their official opening night on Thursd…

With Election Day tomorrow, it was hard to avoid registering the politics in even the most entertaining theater I reviewed this past week.  The insistence on body autonomy was a theme in both Broadway plays t…

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Samuel D. Hunter’s plays have quietly shaped contemporary American drama. Known for their compassionate look at working-class lives in his native Idaho, Hunter’s works explore faith, loneliness, community, …

Little Bear Ridge Road – 19 October 2025 Little Bear Ridge Road is that rare piece of writing that can openly discuss some of the least hopeful events a person can go through in a way that creates laughter an…

By David Sheward October 31, 2025: You would think Samuel D. Hunter would run out of ideas. Every one of his plays takes place in his native Idaho and usually features a gay man struggling with loneliness and…

It's been a busy week on (and off) Broadway! Fall has officially arrived and a new season is very much in swing. Catch up on all the latest from the week ending October 31, 2025 with videos from Liberation, Lit…

Broadway’s brightest came together on a rainy evening for Little Bear Ridge Road's opening night. The new play is led by two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Tony nominee Micah Stock and features John…

The new play from the The Whale playwright opened October 30 at the Booth Theatre.

Little Bear Ridge Road, the new Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, is officially open at the Booth Theatre. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter celebrated his long-awaited Broadway debut after more …

Little Bear Ridge Road, the new Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, opened last at the Booth Theatre. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter celebrated his long-awaited Broadway debut after more than 15…

Reviews are in for ‘Little Bear Ridge Road,’ Equity approves production contract, ‘Bat Boy’ highlights Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top the…

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Set on the remote edge of a small Idaho town, LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD centers on a razor-tongued aunt and her long-estranged nephew who find themselves suddenly back in each other’s lives — two lonely souls …

As played by a glorious Laurie Metcalf in Samuel D. Hunter’s keen-eyed, compassionate play “Little Bear Ridge Road,” which opened on Thursday night at the Booth Theater, she is also one of the funniest an…

Little Bear Ridge Road is a quietly triumphant debut for Hunter, an American playwright who sees the country we truly inhabit, rather than the one we like to imagine we do. The post Little Bear Ridge Road, Samu…

Moments of big emotion in “Little Bear Ridge Road” don’t fall flat, exactly, but they don’t play to Hunter’s strengths as a writer; he’s better in small, askew gestures. The post Laurie Metcalf Shin…

Little Bear Ridge Road, which runs about 95 minutes (with no intermission), serves as a showcase and masterclass of Metcalf’s acting abilities and command of the stage. Over and over again, your mind delighte…

In Little Bear Ridge Road, Metcalf racks up the hits with ease, though the production feels more like watching home run derby than a full game. I couldn’t escape the nagging sensation, as I watched Samuel D. …

The Orion’s Belt comments prefigure all sorts of big discussions to come about cancer and meth addiction and child abuse. They are the same tropes that other, lesser playwrights stick in their plays to give t…

Now that I am done telling friends to grab tickets to Little Bear Ridge Road, let’s tell you about Samuel D. Hunter’s latest drama, which opened on Thursday at the Booth Theatre. Little Bear Ridge Road is a…

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter makes his Broadway debut with an addition to his Idaho oeuvre, set during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

Find out what the critics are saying about the Broadway production of Little Bear Ridge Road, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, with direction by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, Little Bear Ridge Road ma…

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock are starring after premiering the Samuel D. Hunter play at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last year.

★★★★★ Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock star in Samuel D. Hunter's acclaimed drama, previously seen at Steppenwolf Theatre Company The post Little Bear Ridge Road: Small Lives, Writ Large appeared first …

The actors are dueling forces as a semi-estranged aunt and nephew in small-town Idaho in Joe Mantello’s production, brought to Broadway by Scott Rudin and Barry Diller.

It’s a hard-hitting, hard-laughing show that combines topics that you arrive at the theater not itching to confront — the COVID pandemic, meth addiction, health insurance, shift pay — into an absorbing st…

The script for Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road” indicates that the play takes place at “a couch in a void.” As the lights come up, we see it — a white leather monstrosity with separate re…

All the lonely people, where do they all come from? Samuel D. Hunter grapples with this question in his heartfelt one-act drama Little Bear Ridge Road, which opened on Broadway Thursday after a successful run a…

★★★★☆ Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock deliver poignant performances in Samuel D. Hunter’s quietly lovely drama The post Little Bear Ridge Road: Destination Uncertain appeared first on New York Stage …

Laurie Metcalf as Sarah in rubber gloves and Micah Stock as Ethan in a face mask stand in front of a lone couch,  making awkward chit-chat until she finally says:“I’m, uh. Sorry about your dad.”“Sorry…

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock are starring after premiering the Samuel D. Hunter play at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last year.

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 10/26/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 27, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend. NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click Here …

See photos of Little Bear Ridge Road, the new Broadway play from Samuel D. Hunter now at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello, it stars two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock as an aunt and …

Patrick Pacheco reunites with our expert panel—Ruthie Fierberg ("Broadway News"), Adam Feldman ("Time Out New York"), and Jan Simpson (Broadway Radio's "All the Drama")—for Part Two of our Fall Preview, tur…

"Little Bear Ridge Road" on Broadway releases its first look at the production. Currently running at the Booth Theatre ahead of an October 30 opening night, the play by Samuel D. Hunter stars Laurie Metcalf. Jo…

Little Bear Ridge Road has released production photos and a video montage ahead of the show's official opening night on Thursday, October 30. Starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, with direction by Tony Awar…

The new play by Samuel D. Hunter opens October 30.

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