Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  | 

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “the catastrophe of success,” a success capped by A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most influential works of modern American literature. An extraordinary series of masterpieces followed, including Vieux Carre, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending and the classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

JESSICA KUBZANSKY (she/hers) is the Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena and an award-winning director working nationally in theatres such as Arena Stage, Portland Center Stage, ACT Seattle, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Cherry Lane, South Coast Rep, the Geffen Playhouse, and many others. Her last sojourn at the Pasadena Playhouse was also with Alfred Molina on Florian Zeller’s The Father. Recent directing work includes: the world premiere of Weston Gaylord’s Octopus’s Garden, Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana (Boston Court), Sarah Mantell’s response to The Merchant of Venice called Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage, Feb 2025, prior world premiere at Boston Court), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Utah Shakespeare Festival), the world premiere of her own immersive site specific Measure STILL for Measure (Boston Court), world premieres of Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Orange (South Coast Rep), Tira Palmquist’s The Body’s Midnight, Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies (Boston Court), plus Othello (A Noise Within), Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird (ACT Theatre Seattle), Jeanne Sakata’s Hold These Truths (Arena Stage), the West Coast premiere of Luis Alfaro’s Mojada, A Medea in Los Angeles (a Boston Court co-production at the Getty Villa), and many more.