Aurora Theatre Company Continues 25th Anniversary Season with Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING

Aurora Theatre Company continues its 25th season with Tom Stoppard's (The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) timeless comedy about an all-too-witty playwright who succumbs to the emotional ravages he puts his characters through, THE REAL THING. Playwright Henry is not so happily married to Charlotte, the lead actress in his play about a marriage on the verge of collapse. When his affair with their friend, Annie, threatens to destroy his own marriage, he realizes that life has started imitating art. After Annie leaves her husband for Henry, he can't help but wonder whether their relationship is fiction or the real thing. Delectable and deeply affecting, THE REAL THING takes a look at the absolute chaos of love and trust, or lack thereof, and the passions that often blur our perceptions.

Timothy Near ("Master Harold"...and the boys) returns to Aurora to helm this Tony Award-winner for Best Play (1984) and Best Revival of a Play (2000), which The New York Times called "Stoppard's most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years," and The Independent (UK) declared "Stoppard at his most relatable." Featuring Elijah Alexander, Liz Sklar, Carrie Paff (This Is How It Goes, A Delicate Balance, Collapse), Seann Gallagher, Tommy Gorrebeeck (The Monster-Builder, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale), and Emily Radosevich.

DATES:

Previews: January 27, 28, and February 1 at 8pm; January 29 at 2pm; January 31 at 7pm

Opens: February 2, 2017

Closes: February 26

SHOWS:

Tuesday at 7pm; Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm and 7pm

WHERE:

Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA

TICKETS:

For subscriptions and single tickets, the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org. Half-off tickets for Under 35, student, and group discounts available.