{"product_id":"2940170306985","title":"Arcadia","description":"Tom Stoppard¿s Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe¿s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times calls Arcadia: ¿Tom Stoppard¿s richest, most ravishing comedy to date.  A play of wit, intellect, language, brio and emotion,¿ and The Royal Institution of Great Britain calls it: ¿the best science book ever written.¿\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes an interview with Steven Strogatz, the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and  professor at the Cornell University School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:\u003cbr\u003eKate Burton as Hannah\u003cbr\u003eMark Capri as Chater\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Dundas as Thomasina\u003cbr\u003eGregory Itzin as Bernard Nightingale\u003cbr\u003eDavid Manis as Cpt. Brice\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Neame as Noakes and Jellaby\u003cbr\u003ePeter Paige as Valentine\u003cbr\u003eDarren Richardson as Augustus\u003cbr\u003eKate Steele as Chloe\u003cbr\u003eSerena Scott Thomas as Lady Croom\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Weston as Septimus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArcadia is part of L.A. Theatre Works¿ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.","brand":"L.A. Theatre Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162601341168,"sku":"2940170306985","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170306985_p0.jpg?v=1763796216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170306985","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}