An intern at a top magazine is given the assignment of a lifetime – fact-checking a masterpiece by a legendary essayist. What the no-nonsense editor means as a simple task becomes a hilarious misadventure when it becomes clear that most of the facts in the essay are embellished, adjusted, or just made up. The essay is brilliant, but has the essayist undermined his own work or revealed a deeper truth by playing fast and loose to make his point? Facts battle with truth when the intern bucks his instructions and confronts the essayist in this Broadway hit.
“Spry humor, rippling tension and provocative reflections… ingenious!”
-Hollywood Reporter
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Fallen Angels (10/19/24-11/17/24)
Lifespan of a Fact (6/21/24-7/21/24)
BLUE DOOR (4/19/24-5/19/24)
MANAHATTA (2/9/24-3/10/24)
1984 (11/10/23-12/10/23)
As the storyteller for our community, Aurora Theatre Company inspires new audiences and longtime theatre lovers alike with the visceral power of live theatre. Our venues, the most intimate professional stages in the Bay Area, highlight great acting, nuanced language, and an immediacy that makes for exhilarating theatre. By telling profoundly relevant stories, we’re building a new culture of theatregoing in the Bay Area and contributing to a revitalization of theatre nationwide, challenging all of us to think deeper, laugh louder, and engage more purposefully and profoundly with our neighbors and our world.
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Voctave: The Corner of Broadway & Main Street
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall (1/21 - 1/22) | |
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Daisy
Hillbarn Theatre (1/23 - 2/9) | |
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Improvised Law and Order: A Spontaneous Mockery of Justice!
Lesher Center for the Arts - George & Sonja Vukasin Theatre (1/16 - 1/26) | |
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Smuin Contemporary Ballet's
The Smuin Center for Dance (2/14 - 2/23) | |
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Mark Morris Dance Group: Pepperland
Cal Performances' Zellerbach Hall (5/9 - 5/11) | |
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Urinetown
Saratoga Civic Theater (1/25 - 2/15) | |
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The Cher Show (Non-Equity)
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (3/18 - 3/23) | |
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Parade
Curran Theater (5/13 - 6/8) | |
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Opera San José presents Bluebeard’s Castle
Opera San José (2/15 - 3/2) | |
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