New York : The Lincoln Center production of The Coast of Utopia has been extended through May 13, 2007. The trilogy of plays had been set to close on March 10th.
The extension will also give theatergoers six more opportunities to see all three plays in one marathon performance. Those will occur on March 24th, 31st, April 7th, 21st, 28th, and May 5th.
Tickets for the new dates will go on sale Friday December 8th at 10am at the Lincoln Center Theater box office, at www.telecharge.com , or www.lct.org .
Starring in the production is Billy Crudup as Vissarion Belinsky, Richard Easton as Alexander Bakunin, Jennifer Ehle as Liubov Bakunin, Josh Hamilton as Nicholas Ogarev, David Harbour as Nicholas Stankevich, Jason Butler Harner as Ivan Turgenev, Ethan Hawke as Michael Bakunin, Amy Irving as Varvara Bakunin, Brían F. O'Byrne as Alexander Herzen, and Martha Plimpton as Varenka Bakunin.
Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia comprises three parts - Voyage, Shipwreck (opens December 21st), and Salvage (opens February 15th).
The creative team includes direction by Jack O'Brien, set design by Bob Crowley, set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Catherine Zuber, lighting design by Natasha Katz, Brian MacDevitt, and Kenneth Posner, and music and sound design by Mark Bennett.
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, the novelist Ivan Turgenev, the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky and the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin, 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.
The series was first seen in 2002 at London's National Theatre.
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