Two-time Golden Globe® nominee Ewan McGregor is Henry, a playwright not so happily married to Charlotte (Tony Award® winner Cynthia Nixon), the lead actress in his play about a marriage on the verge of collapse. When Henry’s affair with their friend Annie (Academy Award® nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal) threatens to destroy his own marriage, he discovers that life has started imitating art. After Annie leaves her husband so she and Henry can begin a new life together, he can’t help but wonder whether their love is fiction or the real thing.
Delectably witty and deeply affecting, The Real Thing takes a daring glimpse at relationships, fidelity and the passions that often blur our perception of love. Helmed by critically acclaimed director Sam Gold (Roundabout’s Picnic,Seminar) and also starring Drama Desk nominee Josh Hamilton (The Coast of Utopia, “American Horror Story: Coven”), this Tony Award®-winning play by Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia) first seduced audiences in London and New York nearly 30 years ago, when it was called “not only Stoppard’s most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years” (Frank Rich, The New York Times).
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton
Photo by Joan Marcusmaggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusEwan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusMaggie Gyllenhaal and Ronan Raftery
Photo by Joan MarcusMadeline Weinstein and Ewan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusMaggie Gyllenhaal
Photo by Joan MarcusEwan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Photo by Joan MarcusCynthia Nixon and Ewan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusCynthia Nixon
Photo by Joan MarcusAlex Breaux
Photo by Joan MarcusCynthia Nixon and Ewan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusEwan McGregor, Cynthia Nixon, Josh Hamilton, and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Photo by Joan MarcusJosh Hamilton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Cynthia Nixon, and Ewan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusCynthia Nixon, Madeline Weinstein, and Ewan McGregor
Photo by Joan MarcusEwan McGregor and Madeline Weinstein
Photo by Joan MarcusJosh Hamilton
Photo by Joan MarcusThe Real Thing Cast
- Henry
- Ewan McGregor
- Annie
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Max
- Josh Hamilton
- Charlotte
- Cynthia Nixon
- Brodie
- Alex Breaux
- Billy
- Ronan Raftery
- Debbie
- Madeline Weinstein
- u/s Annie/Charlotte
- Rebecca Brooksher
- u/s Billy/Brodie
- Nick Dillenburg
- u/s Debbie
- Rae Gray
- u/s Henry/Max
- Matthew Greer
The Real Thing Creative
- Playwight
- Tom Stoppard
- Director
- Sam Gold
- Set Design
- David Zinn
- Costume Design
- Kaye Voyce
- Lighting Design
- Mark Barton
- Sound Design
- Bray Poor
- Hair Design
- Tom Watson
- Dialect Coach
- Kate Wilson
- Props Supervisor
- Kathy Fabian/Propstar
- Production Stage Manager
- Charles Means
Presented at
Todd Haimes Theatre
227 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
between 7th and 8th Avenues