Rebecca Greene Udden and her dedicated crew at Main Street Theater are celebrating a well-deserved coup: a five-page feature in the current issue of American Theatre, the national theater magazine.

The profile written by Frank Boudreaux celebrates the company’s 36 years of achievement under founding artistic director Udden — and in particular, the most ambitious project in the company’s history, its current Houston premiere of Tom Stoppard’s three-part epic, The Coast of Utopia, whose first part (Voyage) opens Thursday.

MST is only the second U.S. company to stage The Coast of Utopia, following the Tony-winning Broadway production in 2006-07. The epic about 19th century Russian intellectuals who laid the groundwork for revolution is considered by many the crowning achievement of Stoppard’s brilliant career.

The article discusses Udden and MST’s history of literate, challenging work — including some dozen of Stoppard’s plays, alongside important Houston premieres like Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and a spate of notable recent world premieres such as Woof and Cakewalk.

“I’m just so happy for Becky,” said Shannon Emerick, MST’s director of marketing and a frequent presence on stage (she’s a key player in Utopia.) “I’ve been trying for years to get them to do a piece on her. And I think they did a really nice job with it, too. This is awesome.”

As they say, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving company.