{"id":1966508,"date":"2025-08-18T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1966508"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:04:11","slug":"apts-anna-in-the-tropics-sparks-with-poetry-and-passion-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/apts-anna-in-the-tropics-sparks-with-poetry-and-passion-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"APT\u2019s \u2018Anna in the Tropics\u2019 sparks with poetry and passion | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"tncms-inline-relcontent tncms-inline-relcontent-info tncms-inline-alignment-left tncms-inline-width-one-third\">\n<h4>\u2018Anna in the Tropics\u2019<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Through Sept. 26<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>American Players Theatre, 5950 Golf Course Road, Spring Green<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>$66-$109<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/americanplayers.org\/plays\/picnic\"><span>americanplayers.org\/plays\/picnic<\/span><\/a><span>; (608) 588-2361<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Running time is 2 hours and 20 minutes with one 20-minute intermission.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A cigar circles the stage, passed from person to person with the solemnity of a common cup at communion. Each smoker exhales in his or her own way \u2014 eyes squeezed shut or open with anticipation, excited or solemn, thoughtful, entranced.<\/p>\n<p>This moment, late in \u201cAnna in the Tropics\u201d by Nilo Cruz, carries the weight of a sacred ritual. Running at American Players Theatre through Sept. 26, \u201cAnna\u201d lifts stories and cigars into something like holiness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-left tnt-inline-width-half\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-f16d76b1-cc0b-4cb7-b5c2-ed3a1f3f944b\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-f16d76b1-cc0b-4cb7-b5c2-ed3a1f3f944b\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1712\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1211\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/16\/f16d76b1-cc0b-4cb7-b5c2-ed3a1f3f944b\/689b72f5bfbb5.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C987\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/16\/f16d76b1-cc0b-4cb7-b5c2-ed3a1f3f944b\/689b72f5bfbb5.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C987\"\/><br \/>\n                        \n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Josafath Reynoso designed the set and Jason Lynch designed the lights for &#8220;Anna in the Tropics,&#8221; produced by American Players Theatre through Sept. 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">MICHAEL BROSILOW<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cruz won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play, a love letter to literature set in 1929 Ybor City, in Tampa, Florida. Josafath Reynoso\u2019s cigar factory set is gorgeous and infinitely detailed, brick archways and decorative cigar ads framing low wooden desks on wheels where the workers stuff, roll and wrap cigars by hand.<\/p>\n<p>Cigar rollers in Florida brought the tradition of lectors with them from Cuba \u2014 think early audiobooks with in-person readers. When \u201cAnna\u201d opens, a dashing new reader named Juan Julian (Ronald Rom\u00e1n-Mel\u00e9ndez) has sailed from the island, 19th century great novels in tow, to upset the delicate balance at Santiago\u2019s (Triney Sandoval\u2019s) family business.<\/p>\n<p>As his wife, Ofelia (Elizabeth Ledo), and their daughters wait breathlessly for the lector to arrive, Santiago can\u2019t stop betting on the roosters. He wagers a share of his factory to his half-brother Chech\u00e9 (Sam Luis Massaro, tightly wound and watchful), and the loss deepens a budding power struggle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-right tnt-inline-width-half\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-0c341c15-4c57-430b-bed3-6b7a45a0d2a9\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-0c341c15-4c57-430b-bed3-6b7a45a0d2a9\" 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https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/c3\/0c341c15-4c57-430b-bed3-6b7a45a0d2a9\/689b72fb81948.image.jpg 2008w\"\/>\n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Brothers Santiago (Triney Sandoval) and Chech\u00e9 (Sam Luis Massaro) gamble on cockfighting in &#8220;Anna in the Tropics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">MICHAEL BROSILOW<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gambling is the only time Chech\u00e9 seems to win. The others in the factory reject his ideas to modernize. His wife left him for a lector. Juan Julian\u2019s first choice of a novel, \u201cAnna Karenina\u201d by Leo Tolstoy, will \u201cgo right to Chech\u00e9\u2019s heart,\u201d as Marela (Phoebe Gonzal\u00e9z) says.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Tolstoy\u2019s Russian heroine, her loveless marriage and tortured affair go right to everyone\u2019s heart. Hopeful, na\u00efve Marela, enraptured by the tale, daydreams about Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t try to understand everything they say,\u201d she says. \u201cI let myself be taken. When Juan Julian starts reading, the story enters my body and I become the second skin of the characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-vertical  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-right tnt-inline-width-one-third\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-vertical hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1215\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1706\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"MSB_1275.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"1215\" height=\"1706\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=150%2C211 150w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=200%2C281 200w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=225%2C316 225w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=300%2C421 300w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=400%2C562 400w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=540%2C758 540w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=640%2C899 640w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=750%2C1053 750w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=990%2C1390 990w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=1035%2C1453 1035w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1685 1200w, https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/captimes.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/f3\/df3454a5-adfb-49f7-9a8e-e388551f2448\/689b72fd7420a.image.jpg 1333w\"\/>\n            <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Phoebe Gonz\u00e1lez plays naive young Marela in &#8220;Anna in the Tropics,&#8221; with Ronald Rom\u00e1n-Mel\u00e9ndez as the lector Juan Julian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" class=\"tnt-byline\">MICHAEL BROSILOW<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Conchita (Melisa Pereyra, swooning and sensuous) sees parallels to her troubled marriage to Palomo (Yona Moises Olivares). She\u2019s drawn in not only by the story, but by the teller. (Pereyra and Rom\u00e1n-Mel\u00e9ndez have magnetic chemistry, punctuated by curls of smoke.)<\/p>\n<p>In less-skilled hands, \u201cAnna in the Tropics\u201d can tip toward melodrama. Not here. Robert Ramirez\u2019s direction feels cohesive, yet lush. It\u2019s a story within a story within a story \u2014 as Juan Julian starts to read, \u201cAnna\u201d sounds like a tribute to the tragedy and poetry that has been APT\u2019s essential mission for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna in the Tropics\u201d pulls at tensions between old ways and new, as jealousies simmer and the powder keg of Chech\u00e9\u2019s frustration threatens to ignite. Still, Cruz\u2019s script has occasional pitfalls, plot points (mostly connected to Chech\u00e9) raised and too-quickly resolved. The ending feels slightly undercooked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-left tnt-inline-width-half\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-white\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-5a2b6b19-27cd-4448-a3c4-bfc1c40cc9a1\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-5a2b6b19-27cd-4448-a3c4-bfc1c40cc9a1\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-d4724697-239b-458d-9c98-27d5216f389b\">\n<div 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