Tony Winner Billy Crudup to Revisit Arcadia on Broadway

It looks like Tony winner Billy Crudup will revisit the play in which he made his Broadway debut in 1995. The actor will star in a revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in February 2011, according to Entertainment Weekly. He will not reprise his role as Septimus Hodge, the 19th-century tutor, for which he garnered a Theatre World Award. Instead, he will take on the part of Bernard Nightingale, originated on Broadway by Victor Garber.

Crudup won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor is a Play for his performance in The Coast of Utopia. He earned Tony Award nominations for his work in The Pillowman and The Elephant Man. In addition to Arcadia, his other Broadway credits include Three Sisters and Bus Stop. He most recently appeared on the New York stage in Adam Rapp's Metal Children at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. Crudup's many film credits include Grind, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Inventing the Abbotts, Monument Avenue, Without Limits, Waking the Dead, Jesus' Son, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Stage Beauty, Mission Impossible III, Watchmen and Public Enemies.

Arcadia debuted at London's National Theatre in 1993 and played Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1995. The complicated piece shifts in time from 1809 to the present, features dual plot lines and explores such heavyweight topics as truth, time and the meaning of life. A 2009 revival, directed by David Leveaux, received wide acclaim in London.