Two Weeks Before Opening, Richard Easton Returns to The Coast of Utopia

Richard Easton returned to the lead role of Russian landowner Alexander Bakunin in Lincoln Center Theater's production of The Coast of Utopia on November 11. The Tony-winning actor had been out of the the first part Tom Stoppard's three-part epic, "Voyage," since October 18, when he became ill during the second preview. He was hospitalized and treated to correct a heart arrhythmia.

After Easton became ill, opening night was pushed back from November 5 to November 27 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The production is directed by Jack O'Brien and features a cast of 44 also headed by Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Brían F. O'Byrne and Martha Plimpton.