Bug

Steve Earle returned to the Lortel-Roundabout Off-Broadway corner with William Friedkin’s adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Bug — a paranoia-soaked motel-room two-hander that closed too early and gave Carrie Coon and Michael Shannon some of the most uncomfortable stage time of 2025. Eric Hoff directed. The Lortel’s 299 seats kept the production tight. The kind of small, intense play that justifies the trek to Christopher Street — even if the run was a blink-and-you-missed-it three weeks.