Crudup, Easton, Ehle, Plimpton and More Join Coast of Utopia Cast

Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour and Martha Plimpton will join Ethan Hawke and Brían F. O'Byrne in the upcoming Lincoln Center Theater production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia.

Crudup last appeared on the New York stage inThe Pillowman, a show that earned him a 2005 Tony Award nomination. His other Broadway credits include Three Sisters, Bus Stop, Arcadia and The Elephant Man for which he received a Tony nomination. He has appeared off-Broadway in America Dreaming at the Vineyard Theatre, the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Measure For Measure in Central Park and the National Actors Theatre production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in the fall of 2002. Crudup's film credits include Grind, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Inventing the Abbotts, Monument Avenue, Without Limits, Hi-Lo Country, Princess Monoke, Waking the Dead, Jesus' Son, Almost Famous, World Traveler, Charlotte Gray, Big Fish, Stage Beauty and Mission Impossible III.

Easton won a 2001 Tony Award for his portrayal of the older A.E. Houseman in LCT's staging of Stoppard's The Invention of Love. He also appeared in LCT productions of The Rivals, Henry IV with Hawke and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme which played at the company's off-Broadway house. In addition to those previously mentioned, his other Broadway credits include Noises Off, Exit the King, The Misanthrope, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Back to Methuselah, Country Wife and School for Scandal.

Ehle is currently playing Lady Macbeth in Macbeth in Central Park. Ehle was nominated for an Olivier Award and won the Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for her work in The Real Thing. Her other theatrical credits include The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic, Summerfolk for the Royal National Theatre, The Relapse, The Painter of Dishonour and Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Design for Living on Broadway. Her film credits include Paradise Road, Bedrooms and Hallways, Sunshine, Possession, The River King and Alpha Male. She was also notably featured as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries.

Hamilton has been part of the Broadway casts of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Proof. His other New York theater credits include Hurlyburly, The Waverly Gallery, This Is Our Youth, Music From a Sparkling Planet, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Cider House Rules Parts I & II, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Suburbia, Sons and Fathers and Evolution. His film credits include Alive, Kicking and Screaming, House of Yes, Urbana, Freak Talks About Sex, Landfall, The Escape Artist, Online, The Bourne Identity and West of Here.

Like Easton, Harbour was featured in the LCT mounting of The Invention of Love. He received a 2005 Tony Award nomination for his work as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and has also appeared on the Great White Way in The Rainmaker. His off-Broadway credits include Stranger, Fifth of July, the 2002 Shakespeare in the Park mounting of Twelfth Night, A Bad Friend and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Plimpton is currently appearing on Broadway in Shining City, which closes July 16. She earned a 2002 Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel nomination for her performance in the Atlantic Theater Company production of Hobson's Choice. Plimpton made her stage debut at age eight in the Public Theater production of The Haggadah. She also appeared off-Broadway in Suburbia, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Runaways, Boston Marriage, Flesh and Blood, The False Servant and Hurlyburly. Prior to Shining City she appeared on the Great White Way in the short-lived play Sixteen Wounded. Plimpton has been a Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member since 1998, where she directed Absolution and starred in productions of Hedda Gabler, The Glass Menagerie, The Playboy of the Western World and The Libertine. She rose to prominence in the mid-1980s after acclaimed turns in the films The River Rat and Running on Empty. Over the years, she has been a constant presence in Hollywood, appearing in over 30 films. Her big screen credits include The Goonies, Parenthood, Samantha, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Beautiful Girls, I Shot Andy Warhol, Pecker and 200 Cigarettes.

The Coast of Utopia spans a period of 30 years during the 19th-century reign of Tsar Nicholas I as it tells the story of a group of Russian intellectuals, headed by the radical theorist and editor Alexander Herzen O'Byrne, the novelist Ivan Turgenev, the literary critic Vissarion Belinsky Crudup, the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin Hawke and the poet Nicholas Ogarev 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. Easton, Ehle, Harbour and Plimpton will be featured in multiple roles throughout the three-part work.

The Coast of Utopia, directed by Jack O'Brien, is scheduled to begin performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 17.