Crudup, Esparza, Williams and More to Star in Stoppard’s Arcadia at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre

David Leveaux’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia will transfer to Broadway this spring, starring Billy Crudup, Raul Esparza and Lia Williams. The play, which recently played a sold-out run in the West End, will begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 25, 2011. The limited engagement will open on March 17.

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.

Crudup, who made his Broadway debut in the 1995 production of Arcadia and is a Tony Award winner for his performance in The Coast of Utopia, will star as Bernard Nightingale. Williams, who received a Tony nomination for her work in David Hare’s Skylight will star as Hannah Jarvis. Esparza received Tony nominations for his work in Speed-the-Plow, The Homecoming, Company and Taboo and will play Valentine Coverly.

The revival of Arcadia will also feature Margaret Colin, Glenn Fleshier, Grace Gummer, Edward James Hyland, Byron Jennings, Bel Powley, Tom Riley, Noah Robbins and David Turner.

Arcadia will be produced on Broadway by Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berlind, Stephanie P. McClelland, Scott M. Delman, Robert G. Bartner, Olympus Theatricals and Doug Smith. It is scheduled to run through June 19, 2011.