Claim: Glenn Close won a Tony Award for her appearance in The Real Thing.
Evidence: Close began her professional stage career in 1974 in Love for Love , and was mostly a New York stage actress through the rest of the 1970s and early 1980s , appearing in both plays and musicals , including the Broadway productions of Barnum in 1980 and The Real Thing in 1983 , for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
It examines the nature of honesty and uses various constructs , including a play within a play , to explore the theme of reality versus appearance.