See it if You enjoy Tennesee Williams, Marisa Tomei, happy endings.
Don't see it if you don't like Tennessee Williams, stories about widows.
See it if You want to experience a classic play with the brilliant Marisa Tomei as the passionate and fiery lead. She nails it with a fantastic cast.
Don't see it if You dislike passionate plays with adult themes. While humor has its moments, the play seriously tests religious values. Read more
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See it if You like classic theater, enjoy great acting an all around great theater experience
Don't see it if You think Marisa Tomei is going to act the same as My Cousin Vinny
See it if you want to see Marisa Tomei shine is a perfect role. She has great chemistry with Emun Elliott. Beautiful staging with a nice chorus
Don't see it if you can not understand plays with characters speaking with strong accents. Some words hard to decipher. Read more
See it if you've never seen Rose Tattoo and you're interested...if you're a marisa tome fan.. AND if you want to see an INCREDIBLE cast esp EmunElliot
Don't see it if you think Tennessee Williams ALWAYS has to be dead serious
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See it if You're a fan of Tomei and want to see her in a revived TW play. Terrific performance.
Don't see it if You're overly critical of accents or triggered by stereotypes.
"Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’: Trip Cullman’s unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature."
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"'The Rose Tattoo' gets much more pleasurable as it opens into bloom. Tomei is not ideally cast as Serafina-her lightness works against her-and the first act is thick with Italian accents and gesticulation. But Tomei's great talent for romantic comedy clicks into place in her flirtation with Mangiacavallo."
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"Trying to Locate 'The Rose Tattoo'"
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"‘The Rose Tattoo’ Review: Sex, Sicilian Style: Tennessee Williams’s part comedy part drama returns to Broadway after a long hiatus with a still-sprawling cast led by Marisa Tomei."
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"Marisa Tomei Goes Big For Tennessee"
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"Despite a huge cast of characters, this is a very slender play — more a mood piece, really — and far from the playwright’s best. Without any solid scene setting, the minimalist production provides little environmental support."
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"Marisa Tomei stars as a Sicilian American widow who rediscovers the passion beneath her pain in the arms of an ebullient truck driver in the 1951 Tennessee Williams play."
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"Marisa Tomei is passionate and terrific in 'Rose Tattoo’ on Broadway"
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