CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
THE PROVOCATIVE & MODERN OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE RETURNS THIS SPRING
Previews begin Friday, February 24, 2023
Opening Night Sunday, March 5, 2023
Performances through Friday, March 31, 2023
At the Theatre at St. Clement’s (423 W 46th Street)
Ruth Stage’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof returns to the Theatre at St. Clement’s (423 W 46th Street) after a hit off-Broadway premiere run last summer. The original 35 performance run was the first time in history that the Tennessee Williams estate had granted permission for the show to be staged off-Broadway.
Leading the cast are Courtney Henggeler (“Cobra Kai” series regular) in her New York City stage debut as the central role of ‘Maggie the Cat,’ Matt de Rogatis who will reprise his critically acclaimed role as ‘Brick,’ and Obie and Drama Desk Award winner Frederick Weller (To Kill a Mockingbird, “In Plain Sight”) as ‘Big Daddy.’
This landmark production will be helmed by returning director Joe Rosario and his creative team which features Matt Imhoff as the set designer, Christian Specht as the lighting designer and Jesse Meckl as the stage manager.
Ruth Stage’s off-Broadway premiere of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece concluded its run on August 14, 2022, playing to sold out audiences and standing ovations. On the heels of the show’s success, the Tennessee Williams estate has issued an unprecedented re-engagement license to the maverick theatre group.
Tennessee Williams’ sultry, southern storm of a play about greed, deceit, self-delusion, sexual desire and repression, homophobia, sexism, and the looming specter of death won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955. Ruth Stage's modern and haunting interpretation is set in an estate in the Mississippi Delta of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon. The play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's highly dysfunctional family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the Cat, Brick's wife.