Tracy Letts' BUG Comes To Broadway At Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

We’re buzzing (bugging?) with excitement for this Broadway premier! Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts’ play Bug will premier on Broadway this December. The production, directed by David Cromer begins performances on Dec. 17, with opening night set for Jan. 8, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

Bug will star Carrie Coon as Agnes White, Namir Smallwood as Peter Evans, Randall Arney as Dr. Sweet, Jennifer Engstrom as R.C., and Steve Key as Jerry Goss. The play is making its way to Broadway after a critically acclaimed run at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in 2021. 

 “I love this production of Bug. It’s scary and funny and intimate, and it features five great stage actors working at the peak of their powers, under the direction of my long-time collaborator David Cromer,” Letts said in a statement. “But what I love most about it is just how involving it is. When an audience is pulled into a story — when they lose themselves in it — it’s a kind of sorcery. And it only happens in live theatre.”

Bug tells the story of an unexpected romance between a lonely waitress and a mysterious drifter. 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.

Letts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County in addition to the Tony Award for Best Play. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his plays The Minutes and Man from Nebraska. In 2013, he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in the Tony Award-winning revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 

Bug begins performances at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Dec. 17. For tickets and more information, visit here.