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SAMUEL D. HUNTER’S
“LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD”
STARRING
LAURIE METCALF
AND
MICAH STOCK
OPENS ON BROADWAY
TO RAVE REVIEWS
AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC’S PICK

PHOTOS AND VIDEO AVAILABLE

New York, NY (October 31, 2025) – Little Bear Ridge Road, the new Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, opened last night to rave reviews and a Critic’s Pick from The New York Times. Playwright Samuel D. Hunter celebrated his long-awaited Broadway debut after more than 15 years of notable work Off-Broadway and in London’s West End. In their seventh collaboration, Joe Mantello directs the indelible Ms. Metcalf, who has captivated audiences on the Broadway stage for over 30 years.

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“Critic’s Pick. The glorious Laurie Metcalf plays one of the funniest and most thoroughly human characters seen lately on a New York stage. One of the most entertaining, too.
In Samuel D. Hunter’s keen-eyed and compassionate play,
the riveting Metcalf rips into her role.”
– Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times 

“Even by Metcalf’s lofty standards, this is one stunner of a performance.
A beautiful play. In today’s American theater, it’s unique. It is a revelation.”
– Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune 

“Five stars. A gorgeous new drama; a multifaceted gem, exquisitely shaped and cut. Laurie Metcalf has dominated the Broadway stage for a decade and she continues to astonish. LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD confirms Sam Hunter’s place in the firmament.”
– Adam Feldman, TimeOut

“A jewel of a play. The brilliant Laurie Metcalf is in blazing form in a singularly beautiful piece that shifts almost imperceptibly from acerbic comedy to searing pathos. This is a gorgeous play. Its rewards are as immense as the Idaho night skies.”
– David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Laurie Metcalf is one of America’s great theater stars. Give her a nice slow pitch of a line over home plate, and she’ll square her shoulders and whack it with such force you can hear ash colliding with leather. She racks up the hits with ease. Her style is muscular and visceral — and you feel a need to supply sound effects as you describe what she’s doing.”
– Jackson McHenry, New York Magazine

“Laurie Metcalf gives a performance of unvarnished, plain-spoken beauty.
Her remarkably fine performance is flinty, funny, and savagely unsentimental.
LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD is as moving as it is bruisingly truthful.”
– Charles Isherwood, The Wall Street Journal

“LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD marks Laurie Metcalf’s stunning return to Broadway. Tailored to her specific gifts, Sarah is an unforgettable character.
She never jokes but is always hilarious.”
– Helen Shaw, The New Yorker

“A hard-hitting, hard-laughing show you leave wanting much more of. A rockstar of the New York stage, Laurie Metcalf is never less than nuclear.
Uproariously funny and bruisingly honest.”
– Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post

“A towering Laurie Metcalf dazzles in LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD. In this witty and moving play, the stage is its own modest planet: fixed, meaningful, and shining bright.”
– Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast

“A subtly wrenching drama powered by Laurie Metcalf’s stunning performance in a stunning vehicle. In this starkly grand staging by Joe Mantello, she is staggeringly good.”
– Naveen Kumar, The Washington Post

The production is now playing at the Booth Theatre (222 W 45th St) for a limited 19-week engagement, concluding on Sunday, February 15.

Rounding out the company from the initial run at Steppenwolf Theatre are John Drea as ‘James/Kenny’ and Meighan Gerachis as ‘Paulette/Vickie.’ Understudies for the production include Jack Ball, Mary Beth Fisher, Stephanie Roth Haberle, and Aubie Merrylees.

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.

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 is produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin and Barry Diller.

Little Bear Ridge Road was commissioned by and its world premiere presented at The Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, IL) under Artistic Directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis and Executive Director E. Brooke Flanagan.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.LittleBearRidgeRoad.com.

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