US Edition‘Bug’ With Carrie Coon Extends Broadway Run By Two Weeks
- At the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tracy Letts's Bug opens on Broadway starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, directed by David Cromer.
- A Steppenwolf revival directed by David Cromer propelled Bug from its mid-1990s Chicago origins to a larger New York stage, enabling its Broadway debut.
- Takeshi Kata's hyper-real set drops the audience into a dingy Oklahoma motel, anchoring the play's time and place, while midway through Act II a shocking set change literalizes the characters' psychosis, amplified by Heather Gilbert's lighting and Josh Schmidt's sound.
- Opening-Night audiences reacted viscerally with gasps, some leaving while visibly scratching themselves and others cowering in seats as the curtain fell.
- The 2020 Steppenwolf staging felt prophetic amid the pandemic and subsequent conspiracy movements, sharpening Tracy Letts's themes of paranoia and conspiratorial thinking.
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Tracy Letts Says ‘It's Not a Challenge’ Working with Wife Carrie Coon: ‘We Just Like Each Other’
Coon stars in ‘Bug’ on Broadway, the latest of many collaborations between the husband-and-wife duoBruce Glikas/WireImage Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts at the Jan. 8 opening night after-party for 'Bug' on BroadwayNEED TO KNOWTracy Letts’ play Bug opened on Broadway on Jan. 8The production stars Carrie Coon, the actor-playwright’s wife since 2013Working together is “not a challenge,” Letts tells PEOPLE: “We just like each other and like being with …
‘Bug’ review: Carrie Coon is terrifying in tense conspiracy-theory play on Broadway
But over at “Bug” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, starring Carrie Coon, the insect’s song has a more sinister motive. In the hair-raising revival of Tracy Letts’ freaky and potent 1996 drama that opened Thursday night on Broadway, the rhythmic chirping as the lights go down is a signal to “run for your life!”
BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘Bug’ with Carrie Coon will get under your skin
Like an insect crawling on your skin, or pretty much anything in today’s backbiting America, Tracy Letts’ wild black comedy “Bug” has always been open to interpretation. Maybe this skin-crawler is a creepy, allegorical drama about delusional paranoia. Perhaps it’s a shock-horror exposé of the U.S. government conducting experiments on its own citizens. Maybe both. As Joseph Heller famously wrote in “Catch 22,” just because you’re paranoid doesn’t…
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