[DOC] [TLE] McCarter Theatre - Anna in the Tropics Study Guide [PAR] Anna In The Tropics is set in 1929 in a Cuban-American cigar factory where 
cigars are still ... Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina as his first selection to read to the 
workers. .... Palomo - Conchita's husband is a straightforward man whose 
machismo has ..... emotional shifts in the play, and that is the lector [played by 
Jimmy Smits]. [DOC] [TLE] THEATER REVIEW; The Poetry of Yearning, The Artistry of Seduction [PAR] Nov 17, 2003 ... In evoking the lost Cuban-American world of a Florida cigar factory in 1929, ... ''
Anna in the Tropics'' reaches for the artistic heavens -- specifically, that corner of 
... that set this drama apart from most other new plays on Broadway. ... lector, who 
reads aloud to entertain workers engaged in monotonous tasks. [DOC] [TLE] BOMB Magazine  Nilo Cruz by Emily Mann [PAR] Anna in the Tropics , Nilo's latest play, had opened our new Roger S. Berlind ... 
led by Jimmy Smits, Anna in the Tropics opened in New York in November at the 
... I haven't been able to work on the plays that I was writing before I got the award
. ... the lectores, who would read literature out loud to the cigar factory workers? [DOC] [TLE] 'Anna in the Tropics' a combustible drama - latimes [PAR] Oct 6, 2003 ... The corpus of world-famous literature in which cigars play ... "Anna in the Tropics,
" which opened South Coast Repertory's 40th season in high fashion Friday night
. ... an extended family of Cuban American cigar-factory workers in Ybor ... 
lectores -- educated, well-heeled men who are paid to read novels,... [DOC] [TLE] Summary/Reviews: Anna in the tropics / [PAR] In Anna in the Tropics , Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate ... 
occupied by the plays of Anton Chekhov, where yearning is an existential 
condition. ... Jimmy Smits?s performance peaks with his charged passages from 
Tolstoy?s novel, but throughout the rest of the play his performance proves less 
than stellar. [DOC] [TLE] Amazon.com: Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition) (9781559362320 ... [PAR] Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. When Juan Julian, a new lector, 
arrives at the ... His other plays include Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a 
Piano, ... winner, provides an interview with Jimmy Smits to round out the 
production. .... The history of the cigar factory lectors is one I did not know; I read 
up on it a bit... [DOC] [TLE] Komisar's Curtain-Raisers - New York Theatre Wire [PAR] The duel between men and women starts at the crudest level with sexual 
conquest. .... Most marriage plays are about bad marriages; if not bad, then 
boring. ... in a white suit reads romantic fiction as the women in a Tampa, Florida, 
cigar factory, ... Juan Julian (Jimmy Smits) is a sophisticated Cuban who earns 
his living as a... [DOC] [TLE] 0786434481 Broadway Plays - Scribd [PAR] Hischak, Thomas S. Broadway plays and musicals : descriptions and essential ... 
All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any... [DOC] [TLE] last_updated name category keywords short_description ... [PAR] <I>The Key</i> and <i>Tone Clusters</i> are two one-act plays by 2009 Man 
Booker ...... <p><b>Anna in the Tropics</b><br>This poignant and poetic 2003 
Pulitzer ... Dan Castellaneta, Jimmy Smits, Sharon Gless, and more 
original_staging 2 ...... guard, punk rockers, homeless children, transvestites, and 
factory workers. [DOC] [TLE] Anna in the Tropics - Revolvy [PAR] Anna in the Tropics is a play by Nilo Cruz . ... As the workers toiled away in the 
factory hand rolling each cigar, the lector , (historically ... In the play, the lector 
reads Anna Karenina , sparking the characters' lives and relationships to spin out 
of control. ... November  Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel,
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Question: Jimmy Smits played a man who reads this 1870s novel to cigar factory workers in the play "Anna in the Tropics"
Answer: Anna Karenina