Part One � Voyage

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that it will extend the run of its production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, The Coast of Utopia through to the 13 May 2007 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. This American premiere, which is performed by a company of 44 actors, was originally scheduled to run through 10 Mar 2007.

Tickets for the extension of The Coast of Utopia will be available from 8 Dec 2006.

Part One of The Coast of Utopia, Voyage, opened on 27 Nov 2006 and is currently being presented in rotation with Part 2, Shipwreck, which opens on 21 Dec 2006. They will be joined early next year by the third part of the trilogy, Salvage, which begins performances 30 Jan 2007and opens on 15 Feb 2007. 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: 24 Mar, 31 Mar, 7 Apr, 21 Apr, 28 Apr and 5 May 2007.

The Lincoln Center Theatre's production of The Coast of Utopia trilogy stars 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).

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.

Lincoln Center Theater will mount the three parts of The Coast of Utopia individually, performing each part in turn as the next opens.

The schedule for The Coast of Utopia is:

• Part One � Voyage
  now open
• Part Two � Shipwreck
  Currently in previews
  Opens: Thu 21 Dec 2006
• Part Three � Salvage
  Previews: Tue 30 Jan 2007
  Opens: Thu 15 Feb 2007