Roundabout: Dinner with Friends and The Real Thing

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced two new Broadway productions as part of the 2013-2014 theatrical season.

Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Winning play Dinner with Friends, directed by Pam MacKinnon, and Tom Stoppard's Tony Award winning play The Real Thing, directed by Sam Gold.

Casting, dates and venue information will be announced soon for both plays.

The Real Thing returns to Broadway in a new production helmed by director Sam Gold. This Tony Award-winning play by Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia) premiered on Broadway almost 30 years ago.

In The Real Thing Henry is a playwright not so happily married to Charlotte, the lead actress in his play about a marriage on the verge of collapse. When Henry's affair with their friend Annie threatens to destroy his own marriage, he discovers that life has started imitating art. When Annie leaves her husband so she and Henry can begin a new life together, he can only wonder: is their love the real thing?

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still) comes to Broadway for the first time, with direction by Tony Award nominee Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park).

Dinner With Friends: Ever since blissfully married Karen and Gabe played matchmaker with their friends Beth and Tom, the two couples have been inseparable-going to the Vineyard every summer, raising their kids and enjoying countless dinners together. But when one marriage unexpectedly crumbles, the couples' lives begin to veer in opposite directions. Can these four friends move on to the next chapter without moving apart... or have they changed beyond recognition?

They join the previously announced Off-Broadway production of Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, which premiered off-Broadway at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre in 2012 and is now returning for a full Off-Broadway production in Sep 2013 at the Laura Pels Theatre.