The Rose Tattoo
Closed 2h 40m
The Rose Tattoo
73%
73%
(303 Ratings)
Positive
71%
Mixed
23%
Negative
6%
Members say
Great acting, Entertaining, Disappointing, Funny, Dated

About the Show

After playing the role at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2016, Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei returns to Broadway as Serafina in Roundabout's revival of Tennessee Williams's lesser-known drama.


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Critic Reviews (26)

The New York Times
October 15th, 2019

"Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’: Trip Cullman’s unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature."
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Time Out New York
October 15th, 2019

"'The Rose Tattoo' gets much more pleasurable as it opens into bloom. Tomei is not ideally cast as Serafina-her lightness works against her-and the first act is thick with Italian accents and gesticulation. But Tomei's great talent for romantic comedy clicks into place in her flirtation with Mangiacavallo."
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New York Magazine / Vulture
October 15th, 2019

"Trying to Locate 'The Rose Tattoo'"
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The Wall Street Journal
October 16th, 2019

"‘The Rose Tattoo’ Review: Sex, Sicilian Style: Tennessee Williams’s part comedy part drama returns to Broadway after a long hiatus with a still-sprawling cast led by Marisa Tomei."
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Deadline
October 15th, 2019

"Marisa Tomei Goes Big For Tennessee"
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Variety
October 15th, 2019

"Despite a huge cast of characters, this is a very slender play — more a mood piece, really — and far from the playwright’s best. Without any solid scene setting, the minimalist production provides little environmental support."
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The Hollywood Reporter
October 15th, 2019

"Marisa Tomei stars as a Sicilian American widow who rediscovers the passion beneath her pain in the arms of an ebullient truck driver in the 1951 Tennessee Williams play."
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Chicago Tribune
October 15th, 2019

"Marisa Tomei is passionate and terrific in 'Rose Tattoo’ on Broadway"
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