Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize winner comes to Westbury in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Free tickets with a refundable reservation.
‘I have dreams and they are full of white snow,
and Anna Karenina is dancing waltzes with Vronsky.
Then I see them in a little room,
and all the snow melts from the heat of their bodies.’
Tampa, Florida, 1929. In a Cuban–American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are employed to educate and entertain the workers, the arrival of a new lector is cause for celebration. But when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and the American dream prove a volatile combination.
EastLine Theatre in association with Westbury Arts will present Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics this September, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
This production is part of EastLine’s Theatre for All initiative.
