PHOTO CALL: Broadway Purrs with New Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By Ernio Hernandez
01 Mar 2008

The revival of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof currently plays Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre.

Debbie Allen directs an all African-American company. Anika Noni Rose, Terrence Howard, Phylicia Rashad and James Earl Jones are featured in the cast.

"Hypocrisy, greed and secret passions threaten to tear apart a wealthy but dysfunctional Mississippi family in Tennessee Williams' stunning American masterpiece," according to show notes. The work "searingly portrays the larger-than-life characters of Maggie 'the Cat,' her alcoholic husband, Brick, and the dominating family patriarch, Big Daddy."

Here is a look at the production:



Anika Noni Rose Terrence Howard


James Earl Jones


The cast of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Phylicia Rashad Anika Noni Rose and Terrence Howard


Terrence Howard and James Earl Jones


Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Phylicia Rashad, Giancarlo Esposito and Count Stovall


Anika Noni Rose and Terrence Howard


All photos by Joan Marcus.