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Review: 'Anna in the Tropics' lights a powder keg of passion

by Margaret Gray

Nilo Cruz's 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Anna in the Tropics," is set in 1929 at a cigar factory in Florida, but the Anna of the title is Anna Karenina. Tolstoy's adulteress never actually appears onstage, but her subversive passions do. As her story is read aloud to entertain cigars rollers...

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 8:14am on May 21, 2019