Anna in the Tropics

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.

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