"This 'Cat' evokes most of that allure, give or take a few fizzles. For those looking to cool off on these scorching summer days with a Tennessee Williams classic, it’s a solid trade."
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"By now, audiences are so primed they can do a sing-a-long with the dialogue. But the Pollitts are a lively lot, full of dramatic sparks, so they’re back for more, this time—for the first time—Off-Broadway."
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"This misbegotten production of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is valuable in a certain sense, then. It demonstrates the necessity of a strong directorial vision to make Tennessee Williams's play work today by offering an object lesson in how it can sink without one."
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[Sonoya Mizuno] appears to have little or no stage acting experience and Maggie is an enormous technical challenge even for veteran actresses; her characterization is colorless, devoid of nervous energy and humor. Maggie is indeed a cat, clawing desperately at Brick, trying to jolt him back to life; Mizuno comes off as entitled, impatient, given to harangues. She is basically overmatched here, rattling off her speeches at such a rapid clip they are reduced to mush.
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While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present from the contemporary set and clothing and such props as cell phones and a great many uses of the f-word. However, without updating the dialogue, the play does not work for today, particularly in its archaic handling of homosexuality as it was referenced pre-Stonewall. Its themes of deception, greed and “mendacity” (a word made famous by this play) would seem to make the play contemporary but everything else about it including its hothouse atmosphere mark it as a product of its time period.
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"This 2022 revival of Tennessee Williams classic offers some solid talent, albeit a bit dated text... The creative team did an excellent job of bringing this classic to a modern era."
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"This hot and heavy-handed masterwork by our foremost playwright of sexual repression is stuffed with Southern Gothic characters, moral quandaries, exposed thighs, overt metaphors and irritating children. ...Fulfilling the obligation to shake things up beyond the Great White Way, director Joe Rosario and the Ruth Stage theater company take risks, some more successful than others, resulting in an evening of new insights amid a thunderstorm of poetry"
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"This visually updated 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is faithful to Tennessee Williams’ vision while also being a novel entertainment."
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