Anna in the Tropics
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 16, 2003
Closed Feb 22, 2004
Opened Nov 16, 2003
Closed Feb 22, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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With Anna in the Tropics, Cuban-born Nilo Cruz became the first Hispanic playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is set in a 1929 Cuban-American cigar factory where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and the American dream prove a volatile combination. Jimmy Smits stars as the lector.
This is a transfer of the McCarter Theatre production in New Jersey.
Standing room available for $16.25 each only if the show is sold out.
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Maybe the members of the Pulitzer Prize committee for plays are cigar smokers. Maybe they'd lit up and were ruminatively inhaling and exhaling when they read Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, which is set in a Tampa cigar factory during the watershed year 1929. If, indeed, a predilection for cigars among the judges is the explanation for this play's having received the 2003 Pulitzer nod, it's worth noting that said judges wouldn't have been able to smoke in a theater, where they might have assessed Cruz's work as they presumably assessed the other two finalists: Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out.
If the judges had experienced Anna in the Tropics [...]