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FOR RELEASE ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 14

TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR
BROADWAY PREMIERE OF
“LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD”
A NEW PLAY BY
SAMUEL D. HUNTER 

STARRING
LAURIE METCALF
AND
MICAH STOCK 

DIRECTED BY
JOE MANTELLO

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New York, NY (August 14, 2025) – Producers Scott Rudin and Barry Diller announced that tickets are now on sale to the general public for Little Bear Ridge Road, the acclaimed new play by Samuel D. Hunter. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.LittleBearRidgeRoad.com.

As previously announced, Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road, marking his Broadway debut, will premiere on Broadway for a limited 18-week run this autumn starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, reprising their acclaimed performances from the production’s smash-hit world premiere at The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, with direction by Joe Mantello. Performances will begin on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, ahead of a Thursday, October 30 opening night at Broadway’s Booth Theatre (222 W 45^th St).

Rounding out the company from the initial run at Steppenwolf Theatre are John Drea as ‘James’ and Meighan Gerachis as ‘Paulette.’

The design team for Little Bear Ridge Road includes Scott Pask (scenic design), Jessica Pabst (costume design), Heather Gilbert (lighting design), and Mikhail Fiksel (sound design).

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A recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and hailed by The New York Times as “the reigning bard of American economic dead-endism” and Wall Street Journal as “one of the country’s best playwrights,” Samuel D. Hunter has firmly established himself as one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern American soul and a vital voice in the American theater. His plays—including The Whale (adapted into an Academy Award^®-winning film), A Bright New Boise, Greater Clements, Pocatello, Lewiston/Clarkston, The Few, The Harvest, A Permanent Image, and A Case for the Existence of God—are celebrated for their emotional precision, unflinching humanity, and deep connection to the interior West, particularly his native Idaho.

Little Bear Ridge Road marks the seventh collaboration between director Joe Mantello and Laurie Metcalf, who returns to Broadway for the seventh time in 10 years. Little Bear Ridge Road is praised by the Chicago Sun-Times as “a deeply beautiful piece of writing…aching in its intense empathy for the characters.” Metcalf “all but rips the roof off the theater” (Wall Street Journal), opposite Micah Stock, who “[doesn’t just] hold his own with one of the best stage artists of [Metcalf’s] generation—he brings out the best in her” (Chicago Tribune). With Mantello at the helm, the production is “everything theatre should be” (Chicago On Stage) – he “knows the art of acting as well as any director working today” (Wall Street Journal).

On the remote outskirts of a small Idaho town, a razor-tongued aunt and her long-estranged nephew find themselves suddenly back in each other’s orbit—two lonely souls with a crumbling house to sell and a tangled history to unravel. Bitingly funny and quietly explosive, Little Bear Ridge Road is a sharply etched portrait of two people reaching across emotional galaxies—searching for meaning and fumbling toward connection, even as they fear it might swallow them whole. In this piercing and profound new play, the void is vast, the stars are indifferent, and love—messy, human, and hard-won—might be the only thing tethering us to Earth.Little Bear Ridge Road was commissioned by, and its world premiere was presented, at The Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, IL) under Artistic Directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis and Executive Director E. Brooke Flanagan.

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“Metcalf is one of the brightest lights of the American stage. 

She is extraordinary…The show has too many riches to explore in this space.”

-The New York Times

“A deeply beautiful play; captivating and brilliant.  I don’t remember the last time I cared about characters this much.  Unsurprisingly magnificent and shockingly terrific.”

– Chicago Tribune

“One of the finest new plays of the year.

[Laurie Metcalf] is one of the great stage actors of her generation.”

– Wall Street Journal

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