Bug at Steppenwolf- Page 2

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 4:34pm

I hope this is true: Bug is one of my favorite plays that I've never seen performed live...would love this to happen!  Dorian Gray is going to do gangbuster business, I suspect.  

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 5:02pm

Call_me_jorge said: "It’s been roughly 4 years since David Cromer’sproduction of Bugpremiered at Steppenwolf and it could finally be transferring to broadway next season."

I've never seen Bug on stage, but the William Friedkin movie is what made me fall in love with Michael Shannon as an actor.

And Nicolas Cage in a major revival? Intriguing... is there any speculation about what? I've thought he could make a good Elwood P. Dowd, but he may be getting a little old for that part...

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 5:54pm

Honestly, Nic Cage should do Bug. It'd be a perfect fit.

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 7:21pm

Yeah, except he's at least 30 years too old for the role and, unlike Denzel, he looks his age. 

Be brave.  Cast Namir Smallwood and let Steppenwolf be Steppenwolf.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 7:40pm

I generally like Tracy Letts’ plays, but I just don’t get the appeal of Bug. I have not seen it live though, maybe it’s best experienced that way. Regardless, this doesn’t appear to be the Steppenwolf production since David Cromer is directing. They would definitely need a big movie star for it to sell on Broadway. I agree that Nicholas Cage would have been great thirty years ago, but the character is supposed to be in his twenties or early thirties.

Dead Outlaw would be a Kimberly Akimbo/Band’s Visit type of show: critical acclaim but little interest from tourists. Probably cheap to run though.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 7:57pm

The Distinctive Baritone said: “this doesn’t appear to be the Steppenwolf production since David Cromer is directing. They would definitely need a big movie star for it to sell on Broadway.”

David Cromer did direct Bug at Steppenwolf

[thesmash]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 11:06pm

Namir was fantastic, I saw the recent Steppenwolf runs and he was really great. I think Carrie is filming through at least early fall for Gilded Age Season 3, so it would have to be after that if they're gonna have her in the revival.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 11:36pm

Call_me_jorge said: "The Distinctive Baritone said: “this doesn’t appear to be the Steppenwolf production since David Cromer is directing. They would definitely need a big movie star for it to sell on Broadway.”

David Cromer did direct Bug at Steppenwolf"


You’re right, I stand corrected. I thought Randall Arney directed it, but I was thinking of Namir Smallwood in True West.