“The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze … timeless passions that touch us all.” — The Miami Herald

Shimmering with passion, poetry and hailed by The New York Times as “a hymn to the transforming and potentially dangerous powers of art.” In Ybor City, (Tampa) Florida, 1929, cigars are rolled by hand as Cuban factory workers listen to the voices of lectors reading aloud great works of literature. When a handsome new lector begins reading Anna Karenina, he ignites a powder keg of passions. Longing, love, and betrayal spark a volatile flame that signals the end of an era.

LANGUAGE: Mild profanity. (“Son of a bitch”, “The husband is a pansy…” Cigarettes are referred to as “fags.”)

ALCOHOL AND SMOKING: The action takes place at a cigar factory. Characters drink rum, smoke cigars and sniff a “bottle of spirits.” (No tobacco products are used in this production)

SEXUAL THEMES: There are sexually suggestive scenes. No nudity.

VIOLENCE: Sounds of off stage cockfight. Sounds of gunshots. A character is shot on stage.

FOR WHICH AUDIENCE?: Anna in the Tropics is a Pulitzer Prize winner. The play is best suited for 8th graders and up.

RATING: If it were a movie, Anna in the Tropics would be rated “PG-13.” Children under 5 will not be admitted to the theater.