'Bug' Review: A Broadway Drama of Insidious Delusion. Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood star in Tracy Letts's 1996 play about a man and a woman in a ...
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 fo…
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…
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 expert…
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 extrava…
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 …
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…
When Bug was first seen Off-Broadway in 2004, it seemed prescient in its portrayal of mental illness and conspiracy theories. Now " after the world ...
The new Broadway revival, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, marks the play's Broadway premiere more ...
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.…
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
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★★★★☆ Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood star in the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production, directed by David Cromer.
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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 d…
★★★☆☆ Carrie Coon is infectiously good in her husband's conspiracy-minded thriller.
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