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Anna in the Tropics | Critical Overview
Linda Winer (quoted in Anders), a drama critic at Newsday who chaired the committee that awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Cruz, notes that Anna in the Tropics is ‘‘such a luscious play, with rich imagery and a sense of myth and labor history. It takes us to a world we don’t know.’’ Misha Berson (quoted in Anders), another Pulitzer juror and a theater critic for the Seattle Times, describes Anna in the Tropics as ‘‘lovely and kind of fragile, with archetypal, universal characters.’’ Kathryn Osenlund, writing for CurtainUp when...
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