Pulitzer'd Nilo Cruz Talks Back After '2 Sisters & A Piano'
By: Beau Higgins Feb. 05, 2008
The Promethean Theatre (TPT) presents
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Mr. Cruz will be leading talk back discussions
Saturday March 1st and
Sunday March 2nd after the matinee performance
of
TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO
Directed by Margaret M. Ledford
With Ursula Cataan, Mathew Chapman, Deborah L. Sherman and Ricky Waugh
Opening Friday February 29, through March 16, 2008
The Promethean Theatre (TPT) announces its next production of Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano. Cruz's haunting and lyrical script transports us into the lives of two sisters who have been imprisoned in their own house as a result of speaking out against a repressive political regime. Directed by TPT's Resident Director Margaret M. Ledford with dramaturgy by Jane G. Duncan, TPT Artistic Associate.
About The Play…
Maria Celia and her sister Sofia, under house arrest in their family home, take refuge in their writing and music. For these two passionate, artistic siblings, their punishment is an excruciating test of the soul. When political censorship denies Maria Celia her husband's love letters, Lieutenant Portuondo, who oversees their sentence offers to read them to her, but at a price. In this piercing and passionate play, this Pulitzer Prize-winning, Cuban-born playwright deftly shows audiences the intimate joys and sorrows of one family in a fascinating, politically charged country.
About the Playwright…
Nilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1960, Cruz immigrated to the "Little Havana" area of Miami in 1970 on a Freedom Flight, and eventually became a US citizen. His interest in theater began with acting and directing in the early 1980s. He studied theater first at Miami-Dade Community College , later moving to New York City , where Cruz studied under fellow Cuban María Irene Fornés. Fornes recommended Cruz to Paula Vogel who was teaching at Brown University. Cruz received his M.F.A. from Brown in 1994. In 2001, he served as the playwright-in-residence for the New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, where he wrote Anna in the Tropics, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer and the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. A year later it received its Broadway premiere with Jimmy Smits in the lead role. Cruz's other plays include Betty and Gauguin, Dancing on Her Knees, A Park in Our House, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, A Bicycle Country, Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a Piano, Beauty of the Father, and Lorca in a Green Dress. He has translated two plays by Federico García Lorca, Doña Rosita and The House of Bernarda Alba. He adapted a short story by Gabriel García Márquez">Gabriel García Márquez into a children's play A VERY OLD Man With Enormous Wings. He also translated and adapted Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream which opened in February, 2007 at South Coast Repertory">South Coast Repertory.Some of the theatres that have developed and performed his works include New York's Public Theater">Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, McCarter Theatre">McCarter Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, New Theatre, Florida Stage and the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Cruz has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two NEA/TCG National Theatre Artist ResidenCy Grants, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, San Francisco's W. Alton Jones award and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award. Cruz is an alumnus of New Dramatists">New Dramatists, has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Iowa and at Yale University. He presently lives in New York City.
The Promethean Theatre (TPT) presents
TWO SISTERS AND A PIANO
By Nilo Cruz
FEBRUARY 29 - MARCH 16, 2008
Directed by Margaret M. Ledford
With Ursula Cataan, Mathew Chapman, Deborah L. Sherman and Ricky Waugh
Belkys Cordero, Stage Manager
Mailman Hollywood Theatre
Located at Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue
Mailman Hollywood Center ~ 2nd Floor
Davie, FL 33314
Located at Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue
Mailman Hollywood Center ~ 2nd Floor
Davie, FL 33314
Reservation Information:
786.317.7580 or boxoffice@theprometheantheatre.org
786.317.7580 or boxoffice@theprometheantheatre.org
Adults $25 Seniors $15 (65+) Students $10 (w/valid ID)
OPENING NIGHT TICKET INCLUDES RECEPTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sundays at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Special Saturday Matinee on March 8th at 3pm
NO SUNDAY EVENING PERFORMANCE MARCH 9th
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