‘Bug’ Revived on Broadway Starring Carrie Coon

January 9, 2026 Bloody Disgusting

Before William Friedkin’s 2006 film starring Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon, Bug began as a play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County).

Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s acclaimed staging of the show has been revived on Broadway with Carrie Coon (Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Gone Girl) in the lead role of Agnes White.

Namir Smallwood (“American Rust”) co-stars as Peter Evans. Randall Arney, Jennifer Engstrom, and Steve Key round out the cast.

The genre-bending psychological thriller explores the unexpected and intense romance between a lonely waitress (Coon)...