The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will close out its UI Theatre Mainstage season with The Liar, a comedy by David Ives.

The Liar will be on stage at 8 p.m. April 16-18 and 22-25 and at 2 p.m. April 19 and 26 in the Mabie Theatre, UI Theatre Building (200 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City). Eric Forsythe, head of directing in the Department of Theatre Arts, will direct.

Imagine Paris. Springtime. Young lovers. The Tuilleries Gardens. Throw in some mistaken identity, jealousy, a couple of suspicious fathers and clever sidekicks, and a ton of self-promoting storytelling (or maybe it’s out-and-out lying, depending on your point of view) and you’ve got The Liar.

Ives is a contemporary American playwright from Chicago. Ever since All in the Timing, his evening of one-act plays, premiered off-Broadway in the early 1990s, he has been known as an author of wildly funny and sometimes comically absurd one-act plays. In 2010, he adapted Pierre Corneille’s comedy The Liar for The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. It won the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play at the Helen Hayes Awards in Washington the following year.

Tickets are $18 ($12 for seniors 65 and older, $10 for college students and youth, $5 for UI students with valid ID) and are available through the Hancher Box Office.

The Liar is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the Hancher Box Office in advance at 319-335-1158.