It was announced today that Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County, The Minutes), will make its Broadway premiere this winter with the Manhattan Theatre Club at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Performances will begin Wednesday, December 17, 2025, ahead of an opening night on Thursday, January 8, 2026.
The Broadway production will star three-time Emmy Award nominee and Tony Award nominee Carrie Coon (Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The White Lotus, Fargo, The Gilded Age) as Agnes White, alongside Namir Smallwood (Pass Over; American Rust) as Peter Evans, Randall Arney (You Can’t Take It With You, True West) as Dr. Sweet, Jennifer Engstrom (Sweet Bird of Youth, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) as R.C., and Steve Key (Sweat, Blue Surge, The Effect) as Jerry Goss.
Directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer (The Band’s Visit, Prayer for the French Republic), Bug comes to Broadway following its critically-acclaimed 2021 run at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “thrilling—the greatest Bug ever. The work of fearless artists at the peak of their international careers.”
Bug is a cult classic about an unexpected and intense romance between a lonely waitress (Carrie Coon) and a mysterious drifter (Namir Smallwood). What begins as a simple connection between two broken people in a seedy Oklahoma motel room twists into something far more dangerous. When reality slips out of grasp, paranoia, delusion, and conspiracy take over in this sexy psychological thriller.
