Meet the Cast of ARCADIA Day 1: Margaret Colin

Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA is coming to Broadway for a limited engagement this spring, following a sold out run in London where it was heralded as a "dazzling masterpiece, a glimpse of theatrical heaven" (The Daily Telegraph) and "the greatest play of its time" (The Independent).

Directed by five-time Tony Award® nominee David Leveaux, ARCADIA is "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy" (The New York Times) - a witty masterpiece of misunderstanding and quest for knowledge, resonating across centuries.

April 1809, an elegant English country estate... a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory well beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries.

Two hundred years later, two academic adversaries are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809 in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth.

ARCADIA features an exquisite cast including Margaret Colin, Billy Crudup, Raúl Esparza, Glenn Fleshler, Grace Gummer, Edward James Hyland, Byron Jennings, Bel Powley, Tom Riley, Noah Robbins, David Turner and Lia Williams. Crudup, who won a Tony Award for his performance in Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, made his Broadway debut in the 1995 production of ARCADIA. Esparza has received four Tony Award nominations for starring roles on Broadway in Speed-the-Plow (2009), The Homecoming (2008), Company (2007) and Taboo (2004). Lia Williams made her Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight for which she received a Tony Award nomination and Olivier Award nomination.

Tom Stoppard, one of the most celebrated and prolific playwrights of modern day, has been represented on Broadway with seventeen different productions to date including Rock 'n' Roll, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Travesties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia, which received the most Tony Awards of any play on Broadway. David Leveaux's previous collaborations with Stoppard include the Tony Award-winning revival of The Real Thing and the Tony-nominated revival of Jumpers, receiving Tony Award nominations for his direction of both.

Name: Lady Croom Background: Lady Croom rules the Coverly estate with an iron fist. She is Thomasina's mother. Portrayed by: Margaret Colin: Margaret can currently be seen playing the evil "Eleanor" in the television series "Gossip Girl." She last starred on Broadway in Old Acquaintance, for which she received a Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance. Margaret starred in and won a Theater World Award for playing Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Jackie on Broadway. She also appeared on Broadway in A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg and last season in Six Degrees Of Separation at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she has also starred in Sweet Bird Of Youth and On The Razzle. Other New York stage appearances include Defiance (Drama Desk nomination), Aristocrats (Drama Desk nomination), Psychopathia Sexualis, Sight Unseen and Speaking in Tongues. She has played abandoned wives, doctors, lawyers, private eyes and alcoholics as television series leads in "Now and Again," "Chicago Hope," "Foley Square," and "The Wright Verdicts." She has also starred in many Lifetime, cable and films made for television. Her feature film roles include First Daughter, Unfaithful, Blue Car, The Devil’s Own, Independence Day, True Believer, Three Men And A Baby, Adventures of Sebastian Cole and the forthcoming Camilla Dickinson.

ARCADIA begins previews February 26. The show's opening is set for March 17.

For more information, visit www.arcadiabroadway.com.

The cast of Broadway's ARCADIA