Carrie Coon

Broadway Review: “Bug” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)

Twenty-nine years after its London premiere, Tracy Letts’ “Bug” has finally crawled onto Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and the question that matters most isn’t whether this David Cromer-directed production succeeds or fails—it’s whether Cromer understood what play he was directing. “Bug” is a psychiatric horror about folie à deux, the clinical term for shared psychotic…

Off-Broadway Review: “Mary Jane” at New York Theatre Workshop”

October 6, 2017 | buried child, Off-Broadway > | "Mary Jane", Amy Herzog, Anne Kauffman, Brenda Wehle, Carrie Coon, Danaya Esperanza, Dave Bova, Emily Rebholz, J. Jared Janas, Japhy Weideman, Joan Marcus, Kathy Fabian, Laura Jellinek, Leah Gelpe, Lisa Chernoff, Liza Colón-Zayas, NYTW, Susan Pourfar

In Part One of Amy Herzog’s “Mary Jane,” currently playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, Mary Jane (Carrie Coon) is at home caring for her two-and-a-half-year-old son Alex. She shares that responsibility with several professional caregivers, including Sherry (played with compassionate expediency by Liza Colón-Zayas) and Donna, the incompetent nurse the audience never sees. Alex, born at twenty-five weeks…