On Broadway, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is merely tepid
In Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,'' the title character, Margaret, better known as Maggie the Cat, actually recedes from the action for large chunks of the play. It presents a tricky challenge for any actress " one that Scarlett Johansson, who plays Maggie in the patchy Broadway revival that opened Thursday night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, proves unable to meet.