Anna in the Tropics

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Orlando Shakes Theater

Seats: Center E109, E110

Evening performance

Shimmering with passion and poetry, this Pulitzer-prize masterpiece was 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 Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, he ignites a powder keg of passions. Old traditions and new ways collide while longing, love, and betrayal spark a volatile flame that signals the end of an era.