Bug
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Bug Summary
- Show Status: Opening Soon
- Genre: Play
- Bug is 2 Hours long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
- 8 Shows per week
- Previews Begin: December 16, 2025
- Show Opens : January 8, 2026
- Show Closes: February 8, 2026
Tense Broadway revival of Tracy Letts’ play, exploring paranoia, conspiracy, and psychological unraveling in a seedy motel room with disturbing intimacy.
What's Bug Like?
Setting and Atmosphere
The play takes place in a cramped motel room, creating a claustrophobic environment where paranoia and fear build steadily until they feel inescapable.
Central Characters
Agnes, a lonely waitress scarred by trauma, meets Peter, a drifter whose unsettling suspicions draw her into a world of conspiracy and delusion.
Rising Tension
What begins as companionship turns into obsession, as Peter insists the room is infested with government-implanted bugs. His mania infects Agnes, blurring reality and madness.
Emotional Impact
The audience experiences the descent firsthand, trapped in the room with the characters. Intensity escalates scene by scene, leaving spectators both fascinated and disturbed.
Themes
Bug explores loneliness, trauma, and the human need for connection, even when it leads to destructive choices. It’s chilling, provocative theatre designed to unsettle and haunt.
Is Bug Good for Kids?
Bug is not suitable for kids.
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Origins
Bug, by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts, premiered in London in 1996 before its acclaimed Off-Broadway debut in 2004 at the Barrow Street Theatre.
Steppenwolf Productions
The play was notably revived by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2006, directed by David Cromer. That staging later transferred to New York, praised for its unflinching intimacy and disturbing intensity.
Pandemic Delay
A new Steppenwolf production of Bug launched in 2020, again under Cromer’s direction, but plans for a New York run were interrupted by the pandemic, delaying its Broadway arrival.
Broadway Debut
The upcoming Broadway engagement marks the play’s long-awaited commercial debut. Designers and creative teams aim to replicate the stark, claustrophobic atmosphere that has defined past stagings, immersing audiences in paranoia and psychological unraveling.
Reputation
Known for pushing theatrical boundaries, Bug has earned a reputation as one of Letts’ most chilling and provocative works, blending psychological horror with social commentary.
Theatre Information
Samuel J Friedman Theatre
261 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10019
New York, NY 10019
Seats:
650
Entrance:
47th Street between 8th Avenue and Broadway
Theatre
Information
Cast Members
- Agnes White
- Carrie Coon
- Peter Evans
- Namir Smallwood
- Dr. Sweet
- Randall Arney
- R.C.
- Jennifer Engstrom
- Jerry Goss
- Steve Key
Producers
Manhattan Theatre Club
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Production Credits
- Director
- David Cromer
Creative Team
- Playwright
- Tracy Letts