Lantern Theater Company will open its 2025/26 season with The Real Thing, the company's seventh production of Tom Stoppard's work. Longtime Lantern collaborator Peter DeLaurier directs a cast of ...

Since its premiere in 1982, The Real Thing has become one of Tom Stoppard’s most revived plays. It’s easy to see why. It retains all the whirling wit of his early work, but its subject is the most ...

Lantern Theater Company opens its 2025/26 season with The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, directed by Peter DeLaurier. The cast includes Trevor William Fayle, J Hernandez, Adam Howard, Campbell O’Hare, ...

The Real Thing is a consideration of what it means to be in love – the exhilaration of it, the pain, the unspoken contracts involved, the trust, the honesty, fidelity, commitment. Its main character, ...

Tom Stoppard was our Oscar Wilde. According to the playwright John Guare, a woman sitting in front of him at a performance of The Real Thing was heard saying to her husband, “I feel so witty!” And ...

SYNOPSIS: Playwright Henry and actress Annie fall in love while cheating on their spouses, then marry and cheat on each other, unable to let his intense intellect and her intense emotions keep them ...