Jonathan Warman
Director 
I recently directed the New York Premiere of one of Tennessee Williams most wildly creative late plays, Now The Cats With Jewelled Claws, starring Mink Stole and Everett Quinton. The production opened the 50th Anniversary Season at The Club at LaMaMa ETC. Conversations in a restaurant between two socialite women friends, a roughed up pregnant waitress, two young gay hustlers with pink leather jackets emblazoned with “The Mystic Rose”, and a lecherous, prophetic restaurant manager. Apocalyptic, funny, musical, physical, wild, futuristic, shamanistic.
The reviews for Now the Cats
were fantastic! Here are some samples: "The director, Jonathan Warman,
has encouraged a flamboyant presentational style that emphasizes
coherence over flair."
- Jasonn Zinoman, New York Times
"Thanks to the imagination of director Jonathan Warman and his enthusiastic cast, it makes for an outrageously entertaining 50 minutes...Warman mixes Williams' diverse elements skillfully, letting them jostle gently about, feeding rather than fighting each other." - Erik Haagensen, Backstage
“Fearlessly directed by Jonathan Warman, who fully embraces the play’s grotesque beauty.” - Brandon Voss, The Advocate
“Thanks to the surehanded staging from director Jonathan Warman and a fine cast, this mere squib of a play provokes both laughs and thought.” - Andy Probst, Theatermania.com
“Warman more than matches
the piece’s phantasmagorical style...Warman elicits exquisite
performances from his cast that are at once real and larger-than-life.”
- Heathher J.
Violanti, NYTheatre.com
Regina Bartkoff, Mink Stole,
Everett Quinton and Erin Markey
in director Jonathan Warman's production of Tennesee Williams's Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws.
Photo credit: Yuriy Nayer.