Jacqueline DuPrey in Anna in the Tropics. Photo by Craig Schwartz.  

Written by Nilo Cruz
Directed by Richard Hamburger
Co-production with Dallas Theater Center and Arizona Theatre Company
Starring Apollo Dukakis, Jacqueline Duprey, Al Espinosa, Adriana Gaviria, Javi Mulero, Karmin Murcelo, and Timothy Paul Perez

January 7 – February 13, 2005

A story can be more than just fiction. Hired to read to the employees at an antiquated Cuban cigar factory, Juan Julian soon falls for Conchita, an unhappily married employee whose husband has already betrayed her. Julian’s novel of choice, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, provides the dramatic and telling backdrop for the life-changing choices the characters must make. But they’re not just characters, and a story is never just a story. It’s anything but ordinary— like a hand-rolled cigar.

2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner!