Cuba & His Teddy Bear (Repro)

Reinaldo Povod’s gripping contemporary drama 'Cuba & His Teddy Bear' exploded onto the stage of the Longacre Theatre in 1986, transferring directly from an explosive, sold-out run at the Public Theater and capturing massive national media profile. Set inside a gritty, lower-class tenement apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the textually rich narrative examines a volatile father-son relationship, tracking Cuba, a charismatic but small-time drug dealer who clashes over values and street survival with his sensitive, teenage writer son, Teddy. Directed by Bill Hart, the historic production famously marked the official, monumentally anticipated Broadway dramatic debut of film icon Robert De Niro alongside Ralph Macchio.