Anna in the Tropics
by Camille Lightner Playhouse

Mar. 20 - Mar. 29, 2026
Fridays-Sundays

Shimmering with passion and poetry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ANNA IN THE TROPICS weaves the tale of a Cuban-American cigar factory in 1929 Florida where cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are employed to transport and inspire the workers as they toil on the factory floor. As a handsome and debonair new lector reads the words of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, the lives of the workers begin to parallel the novel. Old traditions and new ways collide while longing, love, and betrayal spark a volatile flame that signals the end of an era. 

 

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Anna in the Tropics
by Nilo Cruz
Camille Lightner Playhouse

March 20 - 29, 2026

Camille Lightner Playbouse, Brownsville