Barron, LaFortune, Pittu, Etc. Join LCT's Coast of Utopia

Lincoln Center Theater has announced additional casting for its upcoming production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. The production, to be directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien, will begin performances Tuesday, October 17 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street).

Joining the previously announced Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Brían F. O'Byrne and Martha Plimpton in the cast of 44 will be: Bianca Amato, Mia Barron, Larry Bull, Denis Butkus, Michael Carlsen, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Anthony Cochrane, Patricia Conolly, David Cromwell, Adam Dannheisser, Matt Dickson, Aaron Krohn, Felicity LaFortune, Jenn Lyon, David Manis, Andrew McGinn, Kellie Overbey, Scott Parkinson, David Pittu, Annice Purcell, Erika Rolfsrud, Brian Sgambati, Robert Stanton, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Baylen Thomas and David C. Wells."Beginning in mid-19th century Russia during the repressive reign of Tsar Nicholas I, Tom Stoppard's sweeping epic spans a period of thirty years as it tells the panoramic Story of a group of Russian intellectuals, headed by the radical theorist and editor Alexander Herzen (to be played by Brían F. O'Byrne) , the novelist Ivan Turgenev (Jason Butler Harner), the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (Billy Crudup) and the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin (Ethan Hawke), who lead a band of like-minded countrymen in a revolutionary movement in which they strive to change and fix a political system by using their minds as their only weapon," according to LCT notes. The action of The Coast of Utopia, which premiered at London's National Theatre in 2002, begins in 1833 with Part One - Voyage, set in the Russian countryside as well as in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Part Two - Shipwreck, begins thirteen years later outside Moscow and follows the characters' exile to Paris, Dresden and Nice. Part Three - Salvage, takes place over a period of twelve years in London and Geneva.

Lincoln Center Theater will mount the three parts of The Coast of Utopia individually, rehearsing and performing each part in turn as the next opens. During the final three and one-half weeks of the production's run audiences will have the opportunity to see all three parts in succession. And on three Saturdays -- February 24, March 3 and March 10 - theatergoers will be able to see all three - Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage - in one-day marathons beginning at 11am.

The shows will have sets by Bob Crowley and Scott Pask, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Brian MacDevitt (Voyage), Kenneth Posner (Shipwreck) and Natasha Katz (Salvage), and original music and sound design by Mark Bennett.

Tickets to The Coast of Utopia, priced from $65 to $100, will go on sale Sunday, September 10 at the Lincoln Center Theater box office, telecharge.com, or by visiting www.lct.org.

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