Part One � Voyage

The Lincoln Center's production of Tom stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, will play its last performance on Broadway 13 May 2007 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.

The Coast of Utopia: Part 3 - Salvage closes with its matinee performance on 13 May 2007, The Coast of Utopia: Part 1 - Voyage, and The Coast of Utopia: Part 2 - Shipwreck closed on 12 May 2007.

The Coast of Utopia: Part 1 - Shipwreck opened on 27 Nov 2006, following previews from 17 Oct 2006, and played 31 previews and 45 regular performaces. The Coast of Utopia: Part 2 - Shipwreck opened on 21 Dec 2006, following previews from 6 Dec 2006 and played 12 previews and 45 regular performaces, while The Coast of Utopia: Part 3 - Salvage opened on 19 Feb 2007 and played 13 previews and 34 regular performances.

All three parts opened to good reviews: The New York Times said "The world turns quickly in Lincoln Center Theater�s exhilarating production."; The New York Post wrote "In the final count, the trilogy unfolding at Lincoln Center becomes unforgettable and unmissable, an experience of life as much as an experience of art."; and the USA Today printed "Is as aggressively entertaining as it is intellectually and spiritually provocative."

However, the production did receive some criticism also: The New York Sun wrote "Dramaturgically soggy series of lectures that too often let the play's broader themes wriggle away."; Bloomberg said "Neither the trilogy as a whole nor the individual installments can boast a proper dramatic arc." with the Journal News going so far as to describe the trilogy as "An elegant, inanimate lump on the stage."

All the critics praised the production value, a point best summed up by the New York Daily News that said "The star of the show is the production itself."

The Lincoln Center Theatre's production of The Coast of Utopia trilogy was directed by Jack O'Brien and starred Brian F. O'Byrne (Alexander Herzen), Billy Crudup (Vissarion Belinsky ), Josh Hamilton (Nicholas Ogarev), Ethan Hawke (Michael Bakunin), Jason Butler Harner (Ivan Turgenev), Amy Irving (Varvara Bakunin / Maria Ogarev), Jennifer Ehle (Liubov Bakunin/Natalie Herzen/Malwida von Meysenbug), David Harbour (Nicholas Stankevich/George Herwegh/Doctor), and Martha Plimpton (Varenka Bakunin/Natasha Tuchkov/ Natasha Ogarev).

The creative team featured set design by Bob Crowley and Scott Pask, with costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz and sound by Mark Bennett.

Beginning in mid-19th century Russia during the repressive reign of Tsar Nicholas I, the play spans a period of thirty years as it tells the 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 action of The Coast of Utopia, which had its world premiere 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.