Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama has its moments of soap opera and poetic excess. But his deeply felt play about a "lector" who reads novels to the workers in a Tampa cigar factory takes a near-forgotten slice of Cuban-American history and turns it into an affecting piece of theater.
Epic times call for epic art, and nothing moved us more than The Return of the King. Other things we loved: Louis Vuitton, William Boyd and BBC's The Office And to the Atlanta group OutKast, we say "Stank you very much!"