Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

ACT
700 Union St. Seattle

Fifty years ago, this stormy and steamy American classic was part of A Contemporary Theatre's very first season -- now it returns to ACT's Allen Theatre half a century later. And this Pulitzer Prize-winning play by American icon Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) still sizzles with all the passion and greed that first made it famous. The timeless drama unfolds over the course of one sultry evening, as a prominent Southern family is pushed to the brink when tender memories are recalled and life-altering secrets are revealed. Wealthy Southern plantation owner Big Daddy's family has gathered to celebrate his 65th birthday, while sparing him the news that he's dying of cancer. As one son, a former football hero, mysteriously retreats from his desirable but sexually frustrated wife, his money-hungry brother and sister-in-law plot to secure more than their fair share of the family fortune.