It’s time for Carrie Coon to return to Broadway

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 4:01pm

With plum roles on THE WHITE LOTUS and THE GILDED AGE, now feels like the perfect time for her to return to the stage. 

Frankly, I’d be more than happy to see her take on a revival, but I’d also be thrilled to see her try something new. (She would be a great Barbara in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY - and would’ve been a fantastic replacement for Sarah Paulson in APPROPRIATE.) 

Any other roles you’d dream cast her in? 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 4:02pm

Can we get August with her and Laurie Metcalf? 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 4:08pm

There was talk the steppenwolf production of Bug would play New York. 

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 4:27pm

RippedMan said: "Can we get August with her and Laurie Metcalf?"

I was about to say the exact same dang thing.

[steven22]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 4:31pm

I saw her in Mary Jane at NYTW heats ago and really loved her. Now she’s killing it on TV, but should definitely make a NY stage comeback. 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 4:33pm

Her performance in Virginia Woolf is one of the best I've ever seen. It was even better at Steppenwolf on a more intimate stage.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 5:00pm

I'd love to see her husband write something wonderful for the both of them.

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 5:16pm

She was fantastic in Bug at Steppenwolf a few years back. Definitely should be a Tracy Letts play, perhaps a new work? 

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 5:20pm

I mean....she would be sublime in that rumored All-woman Glengarry cast as Roma or Moss. 

[DCS]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 5:58pm

How about Amanda in the revival of Private Lives recently announced?

[MidWestTheater]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 6:28pm

There is no doubt in my mind that David Cromer's production of Bug would have transferred, Carrie Coon gave one of the best performances I've seen on stage, along with the great Chicago actor Namir Smallwood (Currently onstage at Steppenwolf in The Book of Grace). The night we went Tracy was actually there, I am curious what it feels like to have your wife in one of your own plays, and in such a raw, vulnerable part. Next season is Steppenwolf's 50th season and I was hoping either one would come back to do something, but sadly neither is. 

[Melissa25]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 8:47am

Or she can just come and recite the phone book (in Bertha’s voice of course.)

 

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 11:34am

I'd also love to see her in Other Desert Cities or Clybourne Park should either of those get a revival.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 11:47am

It feels cosmically fated for her to play Barbara in August: Osage County, especially now that she has in at least two separate readings. With her star on the rise on HBO and in film since her last Broadway outing - TotallyEffed is correct; her performance in Virginia Woolf was perfection - I feel like it’s time to make that happen. Plus, I just want her and that play back in my life and on a stage.

Updated On: 4/2/25 at 11:47 AM

[Valentina3]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 1:58pm

There's a ton of great ideas on here, so hopefully here's another one... Private Lives is getting a revival soon and Carrie Coon Amanda has a Tony award written all over it.

[Owen22]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 2:27pm

The first time I ever saw Carrie Coon was at the original, tiny Writers Theatre in Chicago, Northcoe.  She had already done Virginia Woolf at Steppenwolf but that was her highest profile role, she was still doing Chicago theatre, nowhere near a "star"..  Now, I have seen Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing numerous times and I never miss it. She was playing Annie (the Glenn Close role).  And she was doing the role with an Eastern European accent!  I found it odd (it was before I started going to London on a regular basis and didn't know how large a Polish population it had) but mesmerizing.  It somehow sympathized a not entirely sympathetic character. Maybe because the accent "othered" her somewhat?  Or gave reason for the character being somewhat distant, but this time not because she is of the upper class?  It was a late choice, the video trailer for the show, she has a typical English accent.  But it was a brilliant choice and she was wonderful and I have followed her on stage, screen and TV ever since.