Academy Award-nominated actor TERRENCE HOWARD has signed on to make his Broadway debut in a 2008 production of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, alongside Phylicia Rashad, Giancarlo Esposito and James Earl Jones. The production will open at New York’s Broadhurst Theatre in March 2008. Producer Stephen Byrd tells the New York Daily News, “It’s confirmed. We’re there. Terrence and I were together last week; he’s on board.”