Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times Paula Vogel at her playwrights' “boot camp” at the Second Stage Theater. As theater games go, this one was a brainteaser that might give even Shakespeare a headache: write a scene that would be impossible to stage.

Playwright Nilo Cruz first found his voice in translation as a boy in Miami when his Cuban immigrant parents would have him decipher missives in English. Cruz, who was 9 when the family arrived in the United States in 1970, made it his mission to master

Antonio Banderas is apparently in talks to play Fidel Castro in Castro's Daughter.The Spanish star is looking to step into the shoes of the Cuban leader in the upcoming biopic, based on Castro's daughter Alina Fernandez's biography Castro's Daughter: An

Tranlated into Spanish by Cruz with Nacho Artime, Ana en el trópico is a play about dormant passions that are revived with the arrival of a lector at a 1920's cigar factory in Ybor City, Florida, who acts as a catalyst amongst the workers. As the lector

When the building that housed New Theatre on Laguna Street in Coral Gables was sold, the troupe was left scrambling. Having to vacate its home by Dec. 15, the company couldn’t open its world premiere production of Chambers Stevens’ Twain and Shaw Do Lunc