The Real Thing at Boston Center for the Arts

Academy and Tony Award-winning writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) brings his brilliant wit and wordplay to The Real Thing. Investigating the mystery of love, the nature of honesty and the joys of language, Stoppard creates a modern love story that celebrates the highs and lows as well as the realities of modern love. Using a "play-within-a-play" device to explore the power of words to create and destroy love, Stoppard follows the romantic permutations of two creative couples as they come to terms with the truth of their feelings. In its original run on Broadway, The Real Thing won the Tony Award for Best Play -- and it also won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play on its return in 2000.