Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello by Benedict Nightingale (****)
Tennessee Williams's play is awfully wordy, yet the true, touching moments more than compensate
Tennessee Williams's play is awfully wordy, yet the true, touching moments more than compensate
Ethnicity matters less than emotional firepower and an awareness of the essential Williams conflict between lies and truth, says Michael Billington
Debbie Allen's staging of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with an entirely black cast mingles dark laughter and deep pain.
This is a gripping, shattering staging of a great play.
Cates has been faithful to the always relevant theme at the play's center -- mendacity -- and the results are as sobering as they are cathartic.
Big Daddy's Ego Defies Death and His Family by BEN BRANTLEY
Ned Beatty's scrupulously detailed acting as the Southern patriarch Big Daddy rules the revival of Tennessee Williams's drama at the Music Box Theater.
Review by Matthew Murray
It's always a bit rare in November to find the air as cold inside a theater as outside. At the Music Box, where a revival of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof just opened, that seems to be exactly the case.
The performances are so painfully brilliant we are totally caught up in the emotional kick of the production.
Review by Eric Grode