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Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Anna in the Tropics" Creates World of Complex Passions in Berlind Theatre Opening

Donal Gilpin

There's something that Anna Karenina said and I keep repeating it to myself, "If there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts,'" Conchita tells her disaffected husband early in the first act of Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz's lyrical 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

Theatre Intime Puts Sigmund Freud on the Couch in "Hysteria," British Drama Combining Farce and Intellectual Explorations

Donald Gilpin

It is 1938. Sigmund Freud has fled to a quiet London suburb, where he lives with his daughter Anna, following the German annexation of Austria. The father of psychoanalysis is dying of cancer of the jaw. The morphine he has taken to relieve the pain has also released demons from his repressed unconscious.