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Oscar-nominated film and theatre star Amy Irving and theatre veteran Jason Butler Harner have signed onto the cast of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, which is set to run in three parts at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre from October of 2006 through March of 2007.
Irving (A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, Oscar nomination for the film Yentl) and Harner (The Ruby Sunrise, The Paris Letter) join a star-studded cast that also includes Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Ethan Hawke, Brían F. O'Byrne and Martha Plimpton.
"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," state press notes for the show, which will feature more than 30 actors in 70 roles.Videos