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  • The play is being produced by Kevin Spacey's Old Vic company, among others, and put on at the Vaudeville Theatre.

    Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood 2010

  • Standing near him was Jeff Goldblum, his costar in David Mamet's "Speed the Plow," currently playing at London's Old Vic, where Spacey is the creative director.

    Knightley (and others) in White Satin 2008

  • London's Old Vic is reviving "The Norman Conquests" next fall, but the Rep, to the best of my knowledge, is the only professional theater company in America to have done so since it ran on Broadway 32 years ago.

    Getting Crazy in Milwaukee 2008

  • And, even better, there are none of those ludicrous health-and-safety signs out front, as, for instance, at the Old Vic, to warn us of the perils of entering a smoke-stained auditorium.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

  • Like a Wellington, a Victoria, a Cromwell, a Peterloo or a Pankhurst these last two being, alas, imaginery, though Wellington was probably in the government when the rich men's cavalry charged the disenfranchised and oppressed people; and Old Vic surely was not the slightest bit amused by the crinolene terrorist Christabel and her like.

    Wilson: Today's Hottest Ticket in Town, Scorchio! 2007

  • Like a Wellington, a Victoria, a Cromwell, a Peterloo or a Pankhurst these last two being, alas, imaginery, though Wellington was probably in the government when the rich men's cavalry charged the disenfranchised and oppressed people; and Old Vic surely was not the slightest bit amused by the crinolene terrorist Christabel and her like.

    Archive 2007-08-19 2007

  • The cast is so lacklustre I cannot remember one single line from the play and the direction so flawed that I shall wait some time before I go back to the Old Vic.

    Arthur Miller, Resurrection Blues dir. Altman (The Old Vic, London) Miglior acque 2006

  • The cast is so lacklustre I cannot remember one single line from the play and the direction so flawed that I shall wait some time before I go back to the Old Vic.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • DEAR ME - 213 1 hope I am not giving away any military secrets when I reveal that owing to his predilection for destroying motorcycles and, rumor had it, airplanes, the Fleet Air Arm was quite glad to let him go to the Old Vic, where the damage he could do was limited by the architecture.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • Former film-maker Lord Puttnam, Old Vic director Kevin Spacey and Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota have signed a report showcasing the value of arts education.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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