Part One � Voyage

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Ethan Hawke, and Martha Plimpton will be joining the previously reported Br�an F. O�Byrne in the cast of over thirty actors in Tom Stoppard�s The Coast of Utopia.

Tom Stoppard�s three-part epic The Coast of Utopia, directed by Jack O�Brien, will begin performances on 17 Oct 2006 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, David Harbour and Brian F. O'Byrne have all appeared in previous LCT productions of Tom Stoppard plays.

Crudup made his Lincoln Center Theater debut in Arcadia playing Septimus Hodge. Easton won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his performance as A.E. Houseman in The Invention of Love, which Harbour also performed in as Moses John Jackson. O'Byrne played Merryweather in LCT's off-Broadway production of Hapgood.

Jennifer Easton won a Tony Award and a Theatre World Award for her performance as Annie in the revival of Tom Stoppard�s 'The Real Thing.' which played at the Barrymore in 2000.

Brian F. O'Byrne and Martha Plimpton are currently starring in Shining City, O'Byrne as the therapist Ian and Plimpton as his girlfriend Neasa.

Ethan Hawke played 'Henry Percy - Hotspur' in director Jack O'Brien's Henry IV which was produced by the Lincoln Center in 2003.

Josh Hamilton appeared in LCT�s off-Broadway production of 'subUrbia' as did Martha Plimpton. Hamilton last appeared on Broadway in Frozen, in which Brian F. O'Byrne, who gained a Tony Award for his performance, also played.

Further casting to be announced.

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 writers, headed by the radical theorist and editor Alexander Herzen (to be played by Br�an F. O�Byrne), the novelist Ivan Turgenev, the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (to be played by Billy Crudup), the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin (to be played by Ethan Hawke) and the poet Nicholas Ogarev (to be played by Josh Hamilton), 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.

Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, David Harbour and Martha Plimpton will be featured in multiple roles throughout the three-part work.

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, 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 - 24 Feb 2007, 3 Mar 2007 and 10 Mar 2007 � theatergoers will be able to see all three - Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage - in one-day marathons beginning at 11am.

The schedule for The Coast of Utopia is:

• Part One � Voyage
  Previews: Tue 17 Oct 2006
  Opens: Sun 5 Nov 2006
• Part Two � Shipwreck
  Previews: Tue 5 Dec 2006
  Opens: Thu 21 Dec 2006
• Part Three � Salvage
  Previews: Tue 30 Jan 2007
  Opens: Thu 15 Feb 2007

The Coast of Utopia is the third partnership between playwright Tom Stoppard and director Jack O'Brien following their collaboration on LCT's award-winning productions of 'Hapgood' and 'The Invention of Love'. LCT also produced Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia'.