2006: a Spacey oddity

Michael Coveney, newly appointed chief critic of whatsonstage.com, has a critical piece on the Spacey regime at the Old Vic in today's Observer:

Another opening at the Old Vic, another chorus of disapproval in the media. Kevin Spacey, artistic director for nearly three years, flew in from Los Angeles last week to flick through a new batch of rotten reviews for Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues and worry about what to serve up in May when the play's run comes to an end. Spacey's Old Vic producer, the unflappable former ITV executive David Liddiment, says it will probably be one of two possible imports from the West End, which will run throughout the summer. Spacey will appear in Eugene O'Neill's monumental Moon for the Misbegotten in September, having sold out the theatre last year with his unusually secular performance as Shakespeare's saintly Richard II. But there are rumblings around town, and in the stalls, that suggest he is still heading for a bumpy ride.