Arcadia Shifts Start of Broadway Previews By One Day

The Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia will begin performances on February 26 instead of the previously announced February 25 start date. Opening night is still set for March 17 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

"The reason for the change is to afford an additional day in the rehearsal room," accordng to a spokesperson for the production. "Rehearsals began several days late following an issue with UK visa processing for some of the cast, and this has been compounded by the extraordinary weather conditions in the North East which have cut into rehearsal hours."

Directed by David Leveaux, the production stars Billy Crudup, Raul Esparza, Margaret Colin, Glenn Fleshler, Grace Gummer, Edward James Hyland, Byron Jennings, Bel Powley, Tom Riley, Noah Robbins, David Turner and Lia Williams.

Arcadia is first set in April 1809 at an elegant English country estate. Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory well beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809 in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth.