Age: 27 Hometown: Long Beach, California Current role: Jisel Soleil Ayon plays Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton on Broadway. (Work!) This marks her Broadway debut. Previous roles: Ayon played Angelica Schuyler …

The event celebrating the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County and this season's Bug will be held at Circle in the Square.

Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a marathon theater reading festival celebrating the works of Pulitzer Prize winner Letts, has revealed more participating stars. Taking place on Monday, February 23 from 11:00AM t…

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join • OHMYGOD HEY! One of Broadway's most recent new openings is BUG, a new production of The…

“I remember being in my high school career day class, saying, ‘I'm going to be on Broadway. I'm going to do a tour,” recalls Jeremy Noel. “My teacher was like, ‘Well, could you be more specific about …

The Tonys are heading back to Radio City, ‘Rocky Horror’ finds phenomenal cast, could ‘Bug’ be on the move? Every week, Matt Tamanini will bring you the biggest news from across the theatrical landscape…

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BUG by Tracy Letts Directed by Dabid Cromer Starring Carrie Coon and Ramir Smallwood A Production of the Manhattan Theatre Club Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer I once knew …

Plus, we preview the spring season on Broadway including Death of a Salesman, CATS: The Jellicle Ball and The Rocky Horror Show.

Written by Tracy Letts and directed by Tony David Cromer, “Bug” stars Carrie Coon as Agnes White, Namir Smallwood as Peter Evans, Randall Arney as Dr. Sweet, Jennifer Engstrom as R.C. and Steve K…

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Bug has been extended for a second time. Originally scheduled to play through February 8, the production was first extended through February 22 and will now play t…

David Cromer directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production of the Tracy Letts drama.

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, will extend its run for the second time. Read the r…

Seen first Off Broadway in 2004, Tracy Lett’s "Bug" has now reached Broadway via the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production being presented by Manhattan Theatre Club. While "Bug" has the reputation as a thril…

Bug discusses how quickly beliefs can turn into delusions can turn into a loosening grip on sanity. It asks at what point we start believing and how we decide we should stop. It asks us how far trust can take u…

The Tracy Letts play opened on the Main Stem January 8 starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood via Manhattan Theatre Club.

Clear your calendars and prep the coffee—because February 23rd is not your average Monday. From 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM, Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre transforms into a marathon of theatrical brillia…

The event celebrating the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County and this season's Bug will be held at Circle in the Square.

Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a marathon theater reading festival celebrating the works of Pulitzer Prize winner Letts, will take place on Monday, February 23 from 11:00AM to 11:00PM at Circle in the Square Th…

The show: “Bug” by Tracy Letts on Broadway What makes it special?: The show stars Carrie Coon (TV’s “The Gilded Age,” third season of “The White Lotus”) in a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwr…

Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Bug @ the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon @ Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, The Opening @ The Pla…

Maybe it’s the current dystopic state of the world but I had a hard time with Bug, the revival of Tracy Letts’ 1996 play that opened this month at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. It …

By Samuel L. Leiter January 27, 2026: As the first-rate actress Carrie Coon (The White Lotus) can testify, theatre can be dangerous. Coon is currently starring as Agnes White in the Broadway revival of Bug, a h…

The Broadway Theatre Review: MTC’s Bug By Ross She stands, staring into the light coming through her hotel room door, left ajar, not from a place of security, but one of anxious disturbance. The stillness is …

White Lotus and Gilded Age star Coon shared her mysterious medical malady on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Carrie Coon is setting the record straight about the recent cancelled performances of Bug on Broadway. While on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the performer shared insight into the reported illness that led to th…

Carrie Coon, the star of Broadway’s Bug and wife of the thriller-play’s author, has revealed exactly what prompted the cancellations of two shows last week just before opening night: She had some sort of on…

Tracy Letts’s ’90s roadside psychodrama makes its Broadway debut. Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Bug. © Matthew Murphy. Bug, written by Tracy Letts, directed by David Cromer, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 2…

Carrie Coon is now back on Broadway in Bug, the play penned by Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright and her husband, Tracy Letts. The performer recently visited Live with Kelly and Mark to talk about her experienc…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/11/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

Two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Brutalist, The Pianist) will make his Broadway debut this March in Olivier Award nominee Lindsey Ferrentino’s play The Fear of 13. Based on David Sington’s do…

Twenty-nine years after its London premiere, Tracy Letts’ “Bug” has finally crawled onto Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and the question that matters most isn’t wheth…

From Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts and Tony Award-winning director David Cromer comes the Broadway premiere of Bug, now running at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. What's it all ab…

The afternoon I saw Tracy Letts’ excellent, itchy Bug on Broadway – an earlier scheduled performance had been canceled – the bestselling and unfortunately influential crackpot Dr. Erich von Däniken died.…

Nobody would claim that Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a romance, but Edward Albee’s scalding classic spurred the real-life love story of playwright/actor Tracy Letts (a 2013 Tony winner as George) and …

It's Carrie Coon's world, we're just living in it. Coon, star of The Gilded Age and The White Lotus, is now starring on Broadway in Bug, the play written by her Pulitzer-Prize winning husband and collaborator, …

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 12, 2026 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 He…

Tracy Letts’s Bug may have first crawled onto the Off-Broadway stage in 1996, but its long-awaited Broadway premiere arrives feeling disturbingly attuned to the present moment. Directed with unnerving restrai…

“I’m not an ax murderer,” Peter (Namir Smallwood) says to Agnes (Carrie Coon.) It’s his first line in “Bug,” Tracy Letts’ intentionally unsettling 1996 play, now in its Broadway debut. But what Pe…

Tracy Letts’s Bug, making its Broadway debut three decades after its first performance, is a psychological thriller that has a timely prescience in David Cromer’s riveting production. Carrie Coon delivers a…

Carrie Coon stars in the hair-raising revival of Tracy Letts’ freaky and potent 1996 drama that opened Thursday night on Broadway.

The Tracy Letts drama opened on Broadway January 8.

Broadway – Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater: 261 West 47 Street. Jan. 8-Feb. 22, 2026. Drama. Author: Tracy Letts. Director: David Cromer. 2 hrs. Critic: David Sheward (Jan. 2026). **** S…

Originally scheduled to play through February 8, the production will now play through February 22 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Bug will extend its run for an additional two weeks. Originally scheduled to play through February 8, the production will now play through February 22 at the Samue…

David Cromer directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production of the Tracy Letts drama.

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, will extend its run for an additional two weeks. Re…

The Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ Bug starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood – which opened last night right on schedule after the previous day’s missed performances due to an illness in the compa…

By Alix Cohen 40ish Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a low end motel room on an interstate highway in Oklahoma. A bar waitress, she seems to spend the rest of her time high. Today, ex-husband Jerry Gross (Ste…

Grace and Matt go through the reviews for the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of ‘Bug’ Patreon: BroadwayRadiohttps://www.patreon.com/broadwayradio For a transcript of this episode, please email…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 9, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click He…

By David Sheward January 8, 2026: Since its London premiere in 1996, Tracey Letts’ riveting psycho-thriller Bug has become more relevant and therefore even scarier. Currently revived in a forceful production …

From Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) and Tony Award-winning director David Cromer (Prayer for the French Republic, The Band’s Visit) comes the Broadway prem…

Once that descent begins, though, it’s a perverse thrill to the end. Aided by a masterful set change (the decaying scenery is by Takeshi Kata, spookily lit by Heather Gilbert), Cromer expertly turns the dial …

Playing a woman with a long-missing child living in constant fear of her ex’s fist, Coon conveys with exacting precision how a lifetime spent asking “why me” can push someone to seek extravagant answers f…

Letts’s play is a sordid, spiky creature, a two-hour descent into a pit of paranoia within the dingy walls of an Oklahoma motel room. It’s also an acting showcase, especially for its female lead, and Coon t…

“Bug” is as intimate as it is intense. The set, designed by Takeshi Kata, drops the audience right into this specific place and time. The lightning, helmed by Heather Gilbert, and the sound, spearheaded by …

The slipperiness of ostensible skepticism into utter credulity is what makes Bug continue to resonate so powerfully today. This is not just a particularly lurid folie à deux involving a peculiar variety of Ekb…

While fascinating in its ambition, pretty early the momentum of the play stalls, and Bug becomes an arduous descent into loud shouting and, ultimately, no answers. Coon and Smallwood’s performances navigating…

It goes without saying that “Bug” belongs to Coon, whose transfixing tour de force is reason enough to snap up a ticket immediately. The three-time Emmy nominee is every bit as ferocious and fragile as you�…

Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood star, with David Cromer at the helm of the Manhattan Theatre Club production.

Tracy Letts’s eerily topical, decades-old play about a woman’s descent into a world of conspiracy theories makes its nerve-rattling Broadway debut.

Manhattan Theatre Club is presenting the first Broadway production of Tracy Letts' acclaimed play Bug. The Broadway premiere of sci-fi thriller is directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer. Read reviews for th…

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York The White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks You can practically smell t…

★★★★☆ Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood star in the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production, directed by David Cromer. The post Bug: Tracy Letts’ Shocker Lands on Broadway appeared first on New York…

Thirty years after it initially debuted in London, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ “Bug” is finally getting its Broadway bow. Directed by Obie Award winner David Cormer, the disturbing psyc…

Theatrely's Broadway review of Bug by Tracy Letts and starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in New York City at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Bug – 03 January 2026 Tracy Letts’s brilliant psychological thriller Bug explores the intensity of loneliness and how easily someone experiencing it will lie to themselves if presented with someone or some …

★★★☆☆ Carrie Coon is infectiously good in her husband's conspiracy-minded thriller. The post Bug: It’s Back, Creepier than Ever appeared first on New York Stage Review.

Tracy Letts's acclaimed 1996 play celebrates its 30th anniversary with its first-ever Broadway production.

Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood are awesome in this wrenching revival of Tracy Letts’ wild 1996 underclass drama of drinking and drugging in a motel room. The post Bug appeared first on Theaterscene.org.

The play is currently making a long-awaited Broadway debut via Manhattan Theatre Club, with Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood starring.

Manhattan Theatre Club has canceled tonight’s performance of BUG, the final preview before its scheduled opening on Thursday, January 8, due to an illness in the company. A representative for the production c…