Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Tickets

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a Tony-nominated play by Tennessee Williams. The Broadway production originally opened in 1955 and starred Barbra Bel Geddes and was directed by Elia Kazan. The theme of the play is mendacity, a word Brick uses to describe his disgust with the world. The play alludes to the presence of homosexuality in Southern society and examines the complicated rules of social conduct in this culture. The big-screen version of the play was made in 1958 by MGM, and starred Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson. Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood reprised their stage roles. In 1976, a television version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was produced, starring the then husband-and-wife team of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, and featuring Lord Laurence Olivier as Big Daddy and Maureen Stapleton as Big Mama.

The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is playing in New York at the Broadhurst Theatre. Debbie Allen is directing the all African-American production and the cast includes Terrence Howard, Anika Noni Rose, Giancarlo Esposito and James Earl Jones. Designer team includes: Ray Klausen (sets), Willian Grant (lighting) and Jane Greenwood (costumes).

John Puccui said “the dialogue is so absorbing and the acting so intense, we hardly notice that 108 minutes go by or that there is a whole lot less to the plot than meets the eye. “