{"id":80664,"date":"2025-08-20T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:40:07","slug":"carrie-coon-to-star-in-tracy-letts-play-bug-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/80664\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Coon to Star in Tracy Letts&#8217; Play &#8216;Bug&#8217; on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/carrie-coon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carrie-coon_1\" data-tag=\"carrie-coon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Coon<\/a> will star in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway_1\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> premiere of Bug this winter, written by her husband Tracy Letts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe play, which will be directed by David Cromer (The Band\u2019s Visit), follows a surprise and intense romance between a lonely waitress, played by Coon and a mysterious drifter, played by Namir Smallwood. The production begins performances on Dec. 17 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with an opening night set for Jan. 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe play transfers to Broadway from a Steppenwolf production that began in 2020 and resumed in late 2021, after being delayed by the pandemic. The show was staged in London 30 years ago, and has had several iterations since, including an Off-Broadway production in 2004 and a film adaptation in 2007, with Michael Shannon starring in both.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn addition to Coon and Smallwood, the cast will include Randall Arney, Jennifer Engstrom and Steve Key, who also starred in the Steppenwolf production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe production describes the play saying, \u201cWhat 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCoon comes to Broadway after starring in The White Lotus and The Gilded Age. She previously appeared on Broadway in a 2012 revival of Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which also starred Letts, and received a Tony nomination for her role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn addition to appearing in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Letts has had several plays on Broadway, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner August: Osage County, Superior Donuts and The Minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI love this production of Bug. It\u2019s 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,\u201d Letts said. \u201cBut what I love most about it is just how involving it is. When an audience is pulled into a story\u2014when they lose themselves in it\u2014it\u2019s a kind of sorcery. And it only happens in live theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Coon will star in the Broadway premiere of Bug this winter, written by her husband Tracy Letts.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15000,32320,6491,96,15001,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-80664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-carrie-coon","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-theater","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}