Burning Questions: Should We Ask Hollywood Stars to Run Theatres?
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I'm off to London soon. I think I'll go see what Kevin Spacey's putting on at the Old Vic, maybe catch a glimpse of the great man himself. Oh, I can't. There are no shows at the theatre until autumn! What's going on?
A lot of people have been asking the same thing. The Old Vic will go dark for five months after today, when its current production, Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, closes a week earlier than planned, following a run of poor reviews and disappointing audience figures. It's just the latest show under Spacey's directorship to get a roasting from theatre critics, who have accused his programme of being dull and American-centric. Now that all the theatre's plans for spring and summer have apparently fallen through, he's been accused of mismanagement too.See the full content of this document
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Burning Questions: Should We Ask Hollywood Stars to Run Theatres?
But are the critics not just being snooty because he's a big Hollywood star, and they think that's the only reason he go...
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