All The Drama: "Anna in the Tropics" by Nilo Cruz, 2003 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: "Anna in the Tropics" by Nilo Cruz

Anna in the Tropics Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_in_the_Tropics

Nilo Cruz Wikipedia page
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilo_Cruz

Emily Mann Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Mann_(director)

“Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater” by Alexis Greene
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1493060325/

Anna in the Tropics script
https://smile.amazon.com/Anna-Tropics-TCG-Nilo-Cruz-ebook/dp/B005OCJAJG/

“Nilo Cruz” by Emily Mann, Bomb magazine
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/nilo-cruz/

‘A Conversation with Playwright Nilo Cruz,” Windy City Times
https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/A-Conversation-with-Playwright-Nilo-Cruz/3243.html

“Clinging to Fantasy Behind Cuban Walls” review by Ben Brantley, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/16/theater/theater-review-clinging-to-fantasy-behind-cuban-walls.html

“Nilo Cruz's 'Anna Karenina' Lights the Cubans' Cigars” review by Mel Gussow, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/theater/theater-nilo-cruz-s-anna-karenina-lights-the-cubans-cigars.html?searchResultPosition=1

“Anna in the Tropics” review by Charles Isherwood, Variety
https://variety.com/2003/legit/markets-festivals/anna-in-the-tropics-1200537962/

“Nilo Cruz’s “Exquisita Agonía” and What We Lose Through Dispossession” by Hilton Als, The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/nilo-cruzs-exquisita-agonia-and-what-we-lose-through-dispossession

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Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.