Easton rallies after stage faint
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton was recuperating at a hospital Thursday after he collapsed on stage during a preview performance of the Broadway play “The Coast of Utopia.”
Easton, 73, fainted on Wednesday at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater while making a dramatic exit near the end of the first act of Tom Stoppard’s 2002 trilogy.
The show was halted as Easton’s costar, Ethan Hawke, asked for help from any doctors in the audience.
Easton was hospitalized but appeared to recover quickly, said the theater’s spokesman, Philip Rinaldi.
Wednesday night’s performance was canceled, but performances were to resume Thursday with David Manis, Easton’s understudy.
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