Coast of ecstasy

• Variety's Marilyn Stasio reports from the Utopia marathon where Scott Parkinson substituted for Billy Crudup. Much gush, eg. "near-religious experience".
• Leila notes the abundance of scrims in the show and had an only-in-NY sorta night.
• Discussion about discount tix at BroadwayWorld.
• Slightly tangential, but why not, a bit of June 2006 nostalgia.

  [...] I didn’t like this production of Talk Radio any more than I liked the movie. But watching Schreiber made the evening worthwhile. Like Jennifer Ehle and Brian F. O’Byrne, currently onstage in Tom Stoppard's Coast of Utopia trilogy, Schreiber is a true Broadway star and seeing him in his element is for me always time well spent. [...]

• There's an answer from IMDB about the scar thing mentioned on the tagboard. Take it with a ton of NaCl though, have not heard of any other sources for this story.