The Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation: National Theatre Live Series presents ANTONY & CLEOPATRA in the James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive.

Tickets are $17.50.  Call the Theatre Box Office at 310.781.7171.  For more information access www.TorranceArts.org.

Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion, and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead.  General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome.  But at the fringes of a war-torn empire, the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.  In a tragic fight between devotion and duly, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Runtime approximately 3 hours 40 minutes including one interval.