2025–2026
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
November 6, 2025 – November 23, 2025
The Mainstage
About this play
On the occasion of patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt's birthday, his family gathers as the truth of his terminal cancer is concealed from him. At the center of the storm are his son Brick — a former athlete drowning in alcohol and haunted by the death of his closest friend — and Brick's wife Maggie, desperately fighting for their future. The play is an excavation of mendacity, desire, and the silences that destroy families.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set on a Mississippi Delta plantation.
About the Playwright
Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams III; March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright widely regarded as one of the greatest dramatists in American literature. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice — for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) — and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. His works are marked by their lyrical style, exploration of repressed desire, and unflinching portrayals of the American South.