Consider the plight of the Garcia family, which faces the biggest decision of nearly any Cuban-American’s life: To return to the island or not if Castro falls. Part Cuban, part Miamian – to varying degrees, depending on the generation – the Garcias mark el exilio time, waiting for a free…
Luis Santeiro, born in Cuba and raised in Miami, uses his roots and a finely-tuned sense of humor to draw unforgettable portraits of Cuban-American Miamians living in exile. He’s won seven Emmy Awards creating laughs for the bilingual sitcom Que Pasa, U.S.A?, and for Sesame Street, and his Mixed Blessings,…
According to a popular Broadway anecdote, Noel Coward didn’t like Anton Chekhov as a playwright, and really didn’t appreciate Chekhov’s The Sea Gull. When Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne opened in a 1938 production of the play, Lunt, upon seeing the set, quoted his witty friend. “I hate plays,” Coward…
In 1959 Robert Penn Warren’s play, All The King’s Men (based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel) opened off-Broadway, and asked a relevant question: Is it possible for a corrupt politician to be a man of the people? Do true statesmen exist any more? Have they ever? The premise is a…
Bessie Smith earned the right to sing the blues. Her first husband died soon after the wedding; the second one cheated on her regularly, and kidnapped their adopted son and placed him in a foster home. Bessie herself died in an auto accident, but not before making more than 50…
