Tracy Letts‘ 1996 play Bug is getting a revival, this time it will get a Broadway bow this winter, with previews beginning at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre December 18 ahead of a January 8, 2026, opening night.
The play originally premiered in West End on September 20, 1996 starring
Shannon Cochran as Agnes White and Michael Shannon as Peter Evans
They also reprised their roles in the Off Broadway run in New York from Feb 2004 to Jan 2005.
The full cast of the 2021 production will reprise their performances on Broadway, including Carrie Coon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) as Agnes White, Namir Smallwood (Pass Over) as Peter Evans.
Coon, Letts’ offstage wife, will be returning to Broadway for the first time since her debut performance in the 2012 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Her career is quite in a boom recently including playing Bertha Russell in HBO’s Broadway star-packed The Gilded Age and the recent season of The White Lotus.
From the press release:
Set in a seedy Oklahoma motel room, Bug centers on the unlikely romance between a lonely waitress and a mysterious and paranoid drifter. The longer they talk, the more the waitress begins to adopt his neuroses.
