Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. "The words of Nilo Cruz waft from a stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both a specific place and time-and in timeless passions that touch us all.In ANNA IN THE TROPICS, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power.[Cruz] has turned out many wonderful plays-but none more shimmeringly beautiful than ANNA IN THE TROPICS." -Miami Herald. "In evoking the lost CubanAmerican world of a Florida cigar factory in 1929, Mr. Cruz has created a work as wistful and affectingly ambitious as its characters.

ANNA IN THE TROPIC reaches for the artistic heavens." -NY Times. ".enticing and exotic.entrancingly lovely." -Variety.