by Tennessee Williams.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Award for Best Play. The sensuality and excitement of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of two brothers (and their wives) vying for the inheritance of their dying father, Big Daddy, amid a whirlwind of sexuality untethered (in the person of Maggie the Cat), and the burden of love repressed (in the person of her husband, Brick Pollitt). Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF for many years – this version was prepared by Williams for the American Shakespeare Festival production in 1974, with all the changes that satisfied the playwright’s desire for a definitive text.