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- Two preview performances of Bug have been cancelled simply sooner or later earlier than the Broadway revival starring Carrie Coon formally opens
- A rep tells ipromiseyoumedia the last-minute cancellations have been as a consequence of sicknesses
- The play was beforehand tailored right into a 2006 movie starring Michael Shannon, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.
The Carrie Coon-led Broadway manufacturing of Bug abruptly canceled two performances as a consequence of an sickness inside the firm on Wednesday, Jan. 7.
Particulars concerning the sickness weren’t instantly disclosed. The announcement comes simply sooner or later earlier than Bug formally opens on Thursday, Jan. 8.
“Act 2 of at this time’s matinee and this night’s efficiency have been cancelled as a consequence of an sickness within the firm,” a rep tells ipromiseyoumedia.
A supply on the matinee provides that intermission went on somewhat longer than common earlier than a crew member walked on stage and knowledgeable the viewers of the maintain. Quite than sickness, theatergoers have been instructed “there have been backstage technical difficulties,” the insider tells ipromiseyoumedia.
Previews started on Dec. 17, 2025 on the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York Metropolis, the place the present will proceed.
Bug is a psychological thriller written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, who married 44-year-old Coon in 2013, and directed by Tony winner David Cromer.
Namir Smallwood stars reverse Coon as Peter, a paranoid former soldier and mysterious drifter who meets her character Agnes, a lonely waitress. The pair turn out to be remoted in a rundown Oklahoma motel room as discussions of conspiracy theories happen.
A synopsis of the play describes their relationship as an “surprising and intense romance” that turns into a “horny psychological thriller.”
Previous to its Broadway revival — which additionally stars Randall Arney, Jennifer Engstrom and Steve Key — Bug debuted onstage in London in 1996 and was later produced Off-Broadway in 2004. The play was additionally tailored right into a 2006 movie starring Michael Shannon, Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.
Letts, who shares two youngsters with the Gilded Age actress, beforehand praised the forged and crew for his or her work within the Broadway premiere of Steppenwolf’s acclaimed staging of the cult traditional thriller.
“I really like this manufacturing of Bug,” the actor and playwright stated in an August assertion.
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“It’s scary and humorous and intimate, and it options 5 nice stage actors working on the peak of their powers, underneath the route of my long-time collaborator David Cromer,” Letts continued. “However what I really like most about it’s simply how involving it’s. When an viewers is pulled right into a story — once they lose themselves in it — it’s a type of sorcery. And it solely occurs in dwell theatre.”
Tickets for Bug are actually on sale.