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PRODUCTION PHOTOS AND VIDEO MONTAGE
NOW AVAILABLE FOR
“LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD”

STARRING
LAURIE METCALF
AND
MICAH STOCK

Photo by Julieta Cervantes.

New York, NY (October 24, 2025) – Today, Little Bear Ridge Road — the highly anticipated new play by the acclaimed writer Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale) — released production photos and a video montage ahead of their official opening night on Thursday, October 30. Starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, with direction by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, Little Bear Ridge Road marks Hunter’s long-awaited Broadway debut after more than 15 years of celebrated work Off-Broadway and in London’s West End. The production is now playing at the Booth Theatre (222 W 45th St) for a limited 19-week engagement, concluding on Sunday, February 15.

To download Broadway production photos, click here.
To download video montage, click here.

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, 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).

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” (ChicagoOnStage) – 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 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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“At long last, Laurie Metcalf, a local hero, is back in Samuel D. Hunter’s LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD. Metcalf is considered one of the brightest lights of the American stage, and she is, indeed, extraordinary. The actress and her character are so intimately connected that it is impossible to detect any seams.
The show has too many riches to explore in this space.”
– Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times

“Samuel D. Hunter’s funniest play; with piercing clarity, Mr. Hunter achieves mightily powerful effects which only enhance the tenderness and humanity of his writing.
The play resonates with hard truths about America’s frayed culture. One of the great stage actors of her generation, Laurie Metcalf is hilarious; she gives a performance of rock-steady truthfulness — you get the sense that if you touched her, you would get an electric shock. She all but rips the roof off the theater. And at the helm is the estimable Joe Mantello, who knows the art of acting as well as any director working today.”
– Charles Isherwood, Wall Street Journal

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