"There’s so much chemistry and heat, you expect the stage to catch fire.”
—Roma Torre, NY1

Academy Award® winner Marisa Tomei unleashed a tour de force as a widow who rekindles her desire for love, lust and life in the arms of a smoldering suitor. Erupting from the depths of despair to the heights of passion, Tomei was "an exquisite, transfixing joy” (Daily Beast) in this “paean to the power of sexual attraction” (The New York Times).

Score

In truth, the integration of the underscore, sound design, transition music and more heightened metaphoric music required a dilution of the traditional style of playing, which has a strong sense of period and cultural style, into something more fluid, flowing, harmonically ambiguous and textural, something much more classical in flow and feel.”
— Fitz Patton on the music as told to Playbill.com

Costumes

Four illustrations of 1950s costume designs for the show

Ultimately, The Rose Tattoo is about humanity, acceptance, and love—and the lengths we go to to deny ourselves those. It is about the theatre of appearance and what we look like when we unmask ourselves.”
— Clint Ramos, Costume Design

“MARISA TOMEI'S EXCEPTIONALLY PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE IS SO FINE-TUNED IN ITS EXPRESSIVENESS THAT IT VERGES ON DANCE.”
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker

A woman with tousled brown hair wearing a tan silky slip dress. She looks longingly into the distance. — Marisa Tomei
Joan Marcus

A man in a white collared shirt and patterned tie leans town and grabs the hand of a woman sitting in a chair. She smiles and wears a light blue dress and a red rose in her hair. — Emun Elliott and Marisa Tomei
Joan Marcus

An exhausted woman with tousled brown hair wears a tan silk slip dress and sits on a wooden chair on the beach, her toes buried in the sand. Several flamingo lawn decorations are behind her. — Marisa Tomei
Joan Marcus

“The passion runneth over.”
—Adam Feldman, Time Out

Peppina: Florrie Bagel
Miss Yorke: Cassie Beck
Salvatore: Alexander Bello
Estelle Hoehengarten: Tina Benko
Giuseppina: Susan Cella
Alvaro Mangiacavallo: Emun Elliott
Bessie: Paige Gilbert
The Salesman: Greg Hildreth
Vivi: Isabella Iannelli
Billy: Jacob Michael Laval
Violetta: Ellyn Marie Marsh
Assunta: Carolyn Mignini
Flora: Portia
Rosa: Ella Rubin
Mariella: Jennifer Sánchez
The Strega: Constance Shulman
Jack: Burke Swanson
Serafina Delle Rose: Marisa Tomei
u/s Rosa, Peppina: Katerina McCrimmon
u/s Salesman, Jack, Alvaro: Michelangelo Milano

Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Set Design: Mark Wendland
Costume Design: Clint Ramos
Lighting Design: Ben Stanton
Sound Design: Fitz Patton
Projection Design: Lucy Mackinnon
Hair & Wig Design: Tom Watson
Makeup Design: Joe Dulude II
Fight Director: Thomas Schall
Dialect Coach: Charlotte Fleck
Production Stage Manager: Arabella Powell
Original Music, Arrangements & Music Direction: Jason Michael Webb
Director: Trip Cullman

A woman with wavy brown hair in a bright orange shirt angrily points a finger at two actors. Behind her, an older woman watches timidly with her hands clasped. — Marisa Tomei and Carolyn Mignini
Daniel Rader

A group of actors sit on the floor of a rehearsal room with their scripts to discuss the show. — Carolyn Mignini and Ella Rubin
Daniel Rader

Three company members laugh and smile with each other in the rehearsal studio. — Director Trip Cullman
Daniel Rader

The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams, directed by Trip Cullman, with Marisa Tomei premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director, in June 2016.

Presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Partial underwriting support for The Rose Tattoo generously provided by Ravenel Curry.