Jimmy Smits played a man who reads this 1870s novel to cigar factory workers in the play "Anna in the Tropics"
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BOMB Magazine  Nilo Cruz by Emily Mann  Anna in the Tropics , Nilo's latest play, had opened our new Roger S. Berlind ... led by Jimmy Smits, Anna in the Tropics opened in New York in November at the ... I haven't been able to work on the plays that I was writing before I got the award. ... the lectores, who would read literature out loud to the cigar factory workers?
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McCarter Theatre - Anna in the Tropics Study Guide  Anna In The Tropics is set in 1929 in a Cuban-American cigar factory where cigars are still ... Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina as his first selection to read to the workers. .... Palomo - Conchita's husband is a straightforward man whose machismo has ..... emotional shifts in the play, and that is the lector [played by Jimmy Smits].
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THEATER REVIEW; The Poetry of Yearning, The Artistry of Seduction  Nov 17, 2003 ... In evoking the lost Cuban-American world of a Florida cigar factory in 1929, ... ''Anna in the Tropics'' reaches for the artistic heavens -- specifically, that corner of ... that set this drama apart from most other new plays on Broadway. ... lector, who reads aloud to entertain workers engaged in monotonous tasks.
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Summary/Reviews: Anna in the tropics /  In Anna in the Tropics , Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate ... occupied by the plays of Anton Chekhov, where yearning is an existential condition. ... Jimmy Smits?s performance peaks with his charged passages from Tolstoy?s novel, but throughout the rest of the play his performance proves less than stellar.
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'Anna in the Tropics' a combustible drama - latimes  Oct 6, 2003 ... The corpus of world-famous literature in which cigars play ... "Anna in the Tropics," which opened South Coast Repertory's 40th season in high fashion Friday night. ... an extended family of Cuban American cigar-factory workers in Ybor ... lectores -- educated, well-heeled men who are paid to read novels,...
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Some Notes on Faulkner's Reading - JStor  of native subject-matter for the American writer, taking ' the old Mississippi river days' ... novels, Soldiers' Pay (1926) and Mosquitoes (1927), being the most self consciously ... Dawson Fairchild and Julius, Mary in Crome Yellow goes to Anne for the ... uncommon one during the twenties; Sherwood Anderson, the model for.
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Jimmy Smits - TV.com  Jimmy was born in 1955 to a Surinamese father and Puerto Rican mother.... ... From his days at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, he enjoyed acting. His family ... Star. 2000; NYPD Blue. Det. Bobby Simone [ episodes 27 - 115, episode 247 (uncredited) ] .... S 59: Ep 1 The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Don Juan in Hell | work by Shaw | Britannica.com  Feb 19, 2016 ... Don Juan in Hell, the third act of Man and Superman by George ... at its most operatic and is often performed as a separate piece. ... play in four acts by George Bernard Shaw, published in 1903 and performed (without scene 2 of Act III) in 1905; .... Like any playwright, William Shakespeare made stuff up.
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The Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov, 1901 - Ibiblio  2, 1901, pp 124-178, and first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre, January, 1901. ... ANDREY SERGEEVICH PROZOROV; NATALYA IVANOVNA, also called ... It is warm today, we can have the windows open, but the birches are not in leaf yet. .... We'll talk some other time, and so for now good-bye, darling, I'm going.
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James Franco to make Broadway debut in 'Of Mice and Men' revival ...  Mar 7, 2013 ... I'm going to play George," the star of "Oz the Great and Powerful ... Franco, 34, offered no more details on the production or who would play fellow migrant worker Lennie. ... Adapted from John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, Of Mice ... In the 1974 revival Kevin Conway and James Earl Jones reprised...
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Cabbages and Kings (literature) - Wikipedia  Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel written by O. Henry, set in a fictitious Central American ... The novel contains various short stories, all of which occur in Anchuria, and are connected ... 1904 novels  Books by O. Henry  1900s novel stubs.
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Morning Buzz, December 8, 2004 - SportsBusiness Daily ...  Dec 8, 2004 ... ... was Playwrights. His 1840s romance with an older housemaid in Grimstad may have inspired his later themes of guilt and social hypocrisy.
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Death of a Salesman  Arthur Miller has emerged as one of the most successful and enduring playwrights of the .... it's so beautiful up there, Linda, the trees are so thick, and the sun is warm. ... Goddammit, I could sell them! (He starts ...... Slight pause.) WILLY (stops short, looking at Biff): Glad to hear it, boy. ...... BIFF: Let's get a load on. WILLY: You...
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Gogol. Russian literature. Tikos. Dramatic works - Samizdat Express  Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) created a new direction in Russian letters, which was ... Tara Bulba, The Inspector General, and St. John's Eve by Gogol, plus great ... "The Marriage", begun in 1836, after some reworking was completed in 1842. .... Suffice it to say that the censors passed the play only because Gogol and his...
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Summary/Reviews: James and the giant peach : - Buffalo & Erie ...  A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of ... with two nasty aunts and becomes a hero to his new insect family, including Miss Spider, ... his black-and-white illustrations for Roald Dahl's classic 1961 novel, James and ... James Henry Trotter, a poor orphan, is being raised by two horrible aunts.
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Pajama Game Script Act 2 v.1 - Scribd  Based on the novel 7 1/2 Cents ... He says when he was working at the Ironclad Overall Company and they was ... I'm the sweetheart of Local 343 Associated Garment Workers of North .... MAX (At desk takes out suit of pajamas) Take your pants off. .... Hinesy came in drunk and started raising a ruckus (Crosses R. BABE...
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1906 novel The Jungle - Business in United States of America  Such, however, was the case with Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle, which ... The protagonist, Jurgis Rudkus, works in the meatpacking industry, and during the ... It revealed the filthy and dangerous working conditions in the stockyards, ... and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922.
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InvictusFrom John Huston to Jersey Boys - Columbia Scholarship  This chapter studies Clint Eastwood's films from the 1990s to the present. ... Huston on The African Queen in Uganda and what was then the Belgian Congo in 1951. ... wrote with the critic and novelist James Agee, based on C. S. Forester's 1935 novel. ...... A musical version of Waller's novel, starring Kelli O'Hara and Steven...
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Jimmy Smits - Awards - IMDb  All, Titles, TV Episodes, Names, Companies, Keywords, Characters, Quotes, Bios, Plots ... Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama NYPD Blue (1993) ... For playing: "Bobby Simone". 1998 ... Primetime Emmy, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ... 1998, Won ... Gordon Clapp
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IV. Prose Fiction. Cervantes. By Professor J. D. M. Ford. 1909-14 ...  He has himself adverted to the manner of his life as a slave at Algiers in his play, El trato de Argel, and in the episode of El cautivo in Don Quixote, and tradition ... 5. THE EXEMPLARY TALES. But eleven years more of life remained for ... grew under his hand and, transcending the author's original intent, became a great...
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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun - Google Books  Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, ... A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of a working-class black family in Chicago. ... New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and in 1961, the film version, starring Sidney...