Bug, 2026

The run closed March 8, 2026

Opened

January 8, 2026

Closed

March 8, 2026

Performances

69

Previews

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Theatre

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Of the 175 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and record a performance count, this is the 112th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Bug 1 more that season

Who was in it5 named

5 of these 5 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters51 roles recorded

Carrie Coon Agnes White
Steve Key Jerry Goss
Jennifer Engstrom R.C.
Randall Arney Dr. Sweet
Namir Smallwood Peter Evans
Tracy Letts Playwright
David Cromer Director
Takeshi Kata Scenic Design
Sarah Laux Costume Design
Heather Gilbert Lighting Design
Josh Schmidt Sound Design
J. Jared Janas Hair & Makeup Design
JC Clementz Casting
Caparelliotis Casting Additional Casting
David Caparelliotis Additional Casting
Kelly Gillespie Additional Casting
Zoë Adams Associate Director, MTC Drama League Directing Fellow
Se Hyun Oh Associate Scenic Designer
Selby Souza Assistant Scenic Designer
Stephanie Bahniuk Associate Costume Designer
Victoria Bain Associate Lighting Designer
Mike Deyo Associate Sound Designer
Tyler A. Berg Assistant Sound Designer
Ellyn Miller Associate Hair & Makeup Designer
Christine D. Freeburg Production Stage Manager
Amanda Michaels Stage Manager
Andrew Diaz Production Props
Marcus Watson Intimacy Coordinator & Fight Director
Ian Duff Fight Captain
Gigi Buffington Dialect & Vocal Coach
Robert Carroll General Manager, Manhattan Theatre Club
Gilbert Medina Associate General Manager
Carissa Barry-Moilanen Company Manager
The Press Room General Press Representative
Jim Byk Press Representative
Shane Marshall Brown Press Representative
Serino Coyne Advertising
Zach Raffio Digital and Social Media Manager
Matthew Murphy Production Photography
Amy Gilkes Loe Chief Strategy and Communications Officer, Manhattan Theatre Club
Scott Kaplan Director of Play Development, Manhattan Theatre Club
Steven Dalton Director of Production, Manhattan Theatre Club
Debra Waxman-Pilla Chief Marketing Officer, Manhattan Theatre Club
Kate Nogueira Chief Development Officer, Manhattan Theatre Club
Manhattan Theatre Club Producer
Nicki Hunter Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club
Chris Jennings Executive Director, Manhattan Theatre Club
Lynne Meadow Artistic Director, Emeritus, Artistic Advisor. Manhattan Theatre Club
Barry Grove Executive Producer Emeritus, Manhattan Theatre Club
Jeff Brancato Artistic Line Producer, Manhattan Theatre Club
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Produced in Association with

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

David Cromer

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No recording is held for Bug at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.