{"id":395042,"date":"2026-01-08T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:23:08","slug":"bug-cancels-final-broadway-preview-due-to-cast-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395042\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bug’ Cancels Final Broadway Preview Due To Cast Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBug<\/a>, the Manhattan Theatre Club\u2019s much-anticipated Broadway<\/a> production of the Tracy Letts<\/a> play starring wife and The White Lotus actor Carrie Coon<\/a> and Namir Smallwood, has canceled tonight\u2019s performance \u2013 the final preview before tomorrow\u2019s still-scheduled opening \u2013 due to an illness in the company.<\/p>\n

\n\tA rep for the company confirmed tonight\u2019s cancellation as well as the cancelled second act of a matinee this afternoon. No word on who was taken ill. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe audience at today\u2019s matinee at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre was informed at intermission that the performance would not resume due to \u201cunforeseen circumstances.\u201d Refunds are expected.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show has been doing brisk business, with the most recent box office figures (for the Broadway week ending January 4) reporting attendance at 96% of the venue\u2019s capacity. The gross for the week\u2019s eight preview performances was $446,806. David Cromer (Prayer For The French Republic, The Band\u2019s Visit) directs.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs of this evening, tomorrow\u2019s starry opening night is officially still on. Expected to attend the 6 p.m event are Coon\u2019s White Lotus co-stars F. Murray Abraham, Jon Gries and Sam Nivola as well as Ben Ahlers, Lauren Ambrose, Ngozi Anyanwu, Iris Apatow, Dylan Baker, Christine Baranski, Anna Baryshnikov, John Lee Beatty, Teddy Bergman, Jocelyn Bioh, Joshua Boone, Will Brill, Marc Bruni, Juliana Canfield, Michael Chernus, Anna Chlumsky, Margaret Colin, Roberta Collindrez, Michael Creighton, Kelley Curran, Hope Davis, Johanna Day, Brandon Dirden, Maria Dizzia, Jamie Ellington, Edie Falco, James FitzSimmons, Darren Goldstein, Sam Handel, Jessica Hecht, Carl Hopkins, Reuben Santiago Hudson, Toby Kebbell, Sydney Lemmon, Adriane Lenox, Santo Loquasto, Keenan MacWilliam, Andrea Martin, Lakisha May, Arian Moyed, Gregg Mozgala, Annie Parisse, Steven Pasquale, Nancy Piccione, Alison Pill, Phylicia Rashad, Meghan Roche, Jeremy Shamos, Michael Shannon (who starred in both the 1996 original Bug production and William Friedkin\u2019s 2006 film adaptation), Krissy Shields, Cory Michael Smith, Paul Sparks, Morgan Spector, Daniel Sullivan, Rebecca Taichman, James Taylor, Sanaz Toosi, Merritt Wever and David Yazbek.<\/p>\n

In addition to Tony and three-time Emmy nominee Coon and Smallwood (Broadway\u2019s Pass Over, TV\u2019s American Rust) the Bug cast includes Randall Arney, Jennifer Engstrom\u00a0and\u00a0Steve Key. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe play by Letts (a Tony and Pulitzer winner for August: Osage County) and produced in association with Chicago\u2019s Steppenwolf theater company, follows what the synopsis calls \u201can unexpected and intense romance between a lonely waitress (Coon) and a mysterious drifter (Smallwood). 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.\u201d
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This production of\u00a0Bug\u00a0arrives following Steppenwolf\u2019s critically-acclaimed 2021 run and marks the play\u2019s Broadway premiere. Bug premiered in London in 1996 and Off Broadway in 2004. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bug, the Manhattan Theatre Club\u2019s much-anticipated Broadway production of the Tracy Letts play starring wife and The White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[21540,50884,8406,236,88,138464],"class_list":["post-395042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-broadway","tag-bug","tag-carrie-coon","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-tracy-letts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}