Anna in the Tropics - Winner 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression

Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect of a new "lector", who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory

"The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both specific place and time ... and in timeless passions that touch us all" ~ Miami Herald

Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States