Photos: Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector Have a Gilded Age Reunion at Bug Opening Night
Playbill••entertainment
Key Points:
- Tracy Letts' 1996 play Bug officially opened on Broadway January 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, directed by David Cromer and produced by Manhattan Theatre Club.
- Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood reprise their acclaimed roles from the 2021 Steppenwolf Theatre Company production, joined by Randall Arney, Jennifer Engstrom, and Steve Key.
- The production began previews on December 16, 2025, and due to demand, its run has been extended two weeks to February 22, 2026.
- Bug tells the story of a romance between a lonely waitress and a paranoid drifter set in a seedy Oklahoma motel, originally premiering in London in 1996 and later
