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Using footage from surveillance cameras, police arrested Geremias Cruz Ramos, 27, of Revere, Mass., around 10 p.m. Ramos is an employee of Harvard University Custodial Services in the Holyoke Center, according to Cambridge Police Department (CPD) spokesperson Frank D. Pasquarello...
...CRUZ BUSTAMANTE The challenger terminated by California's new Governor...
...artistic transformations, one need look no further than the play's author, Nilo Cruz. The Cuban-American playwright labored in the regional-theater vineyards for years with little recognition. Then last spring, Anna in the Tropics--after a single production at a small theater in Coral Gables, Fla.--was the surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Now the play is a hot property, with three simultaneous stagings at regional theaters this fall, one of which--the McCarter Theatre's at Princeton, with Jimmy Smits playing the lector--is transferring to Broadway next month. Another of Cruz's plays...
...Cruz, 43, spent his first nine years in Cuba as one of three children of anti-Castro parents who lived a "dual reality." He says, "We were pretending we were communists, but we were against the system." His father, who sold milk containers, bought meat on the black market for the family dinner table, and Nilo's mother got a doctor friend to say the boy had hepatitis, which allowed him to be sent home from school at lunch so she could feed him better. A childhood filled with faux illnesses "meant I couldn't play and run around...
...family fled Cuba in 1970 for Miami, where Cruz spent more time indoors--shelving books at the library and discovering the poetry of Emily Dickinson, along with the work of Latin-American masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He acknowledges feeling a responsibility to give theatrical voice to the Latin-American experience in a country where such voices are not often widely heard. But he hopes that plays like Anna in the Tropics will speak to a broader audience. "It deals with large issues, lost traditions, the importance of art--and it's a classic love story...