Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia Sails to May 13 Extension

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that it will extend the run of its production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, directed by Jack O'Brien, through Sunday, May 13 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street).

This American premiere, which is performed by a company of 44 actors lead by Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Brían F. O'Byrne and Martha Plimpton was originally scheduled to run through Saturday, March 10. Tickets for the extension will be available beginning Friday, December 8 at 10am at the Lincoln Center Theater box office, at telecharge.com or by visiting www.lct.org.

Part One of The Coast of Utopia, Voyage, opened on Monday, November 27 and is currently being presented in rotation with Part 2, Shipwreck, which opens on Thursday, December 21. They will be joined early next year by the third part of the trilogy, Salvage, which begins performances Tuesday, January 30 and opens Thursday, February 15.

The extension will offer audiences an additional twenty one opportunities to see all three parts of the trilogy, including all three parts in one day on six Saturdays: March 24, March 31, April 7, April 21, April 28 and May 5.

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 idealists, headed by the radical theorist and editor Alexander Herzen (Brían F. O'Byrne), the novelist Ivan Turgenev (Jason Butler Harner), the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (Billy Crudup), the poet Nicholas Ogarev (Josh Hamilton) and the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin (Ethan Hawke)," state LCT notes.

The production has 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; and also features Tolan Aman, Bianca Amato, Mia Barron, Larry Bull, Denis Butkus, Michael Carlsen, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Anthony Cochrane, Patricia Conolly, David Cromwell, Michael D'Addario, Adam Dannheiser, Matt Dickson, August Gladstone, Aaron Krohn, Felicity LaFortune, Jenn Lyon, David Manis, Andrew McGinn, Beckett Melville, Kellie Overbey, Scott Parkinson, David Pittu, Annie Purcell, Erika Rolfsrud, Brian Sgambati, Robert Stanton, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Baylen Thomas and David Christopher Wells.

Please consult www.coastofutopia.com for the full playing schedule.

Photo of Ethan Hawke by Paul Kolnik