In this beguiling story set in a Cuban-American cigar factory in 1929 Florida, cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new ...

ANNA IN THE TROPICSWritten by Nilo CruzDirected by Dennis YslasJanuary 21 - February 5, 2022Dupree Theater at Irving Arts CenterTropical, simmering and steamy! Exotic and enticing, this poetic play is ...

Eleven years after it world-premiered at New Theatre, Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics remains one of the tallest feathers in the company’s historical cap. The play, about Cuban immigrant cigar rollers ...

All happy plays resemble one another; each unhappy play is unhappy in its own way. Or so Leo Tolstoy might have observed upon finding his novel Anna Karenina used as the catalyst of the unhappy action ...

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