Kevin Spacey opens Old Vic season with new US play, EU

Joe Sutton's "Complicit," the story of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist facing prosecution, opens at the Old Vic in January.

It will be followed by a revival of Brian Friel's Irish drama "Dancing at Lughnasa," starring Niamh Cusack and Andrea Corr from singing group The Corrs, according to the announcement Wednesday.

Productions of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes will open at the Old Vic in May. The cast includes Ethan Hawke, Simon Russell Beale and Sinead Cusack.

The plays are part of the Bridge Project, a three-year collaboration between the Old Vic, New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music and Neal Street Productions, run by Mendes and Caro Newling. The double bill will run in Brooklyn from January to March, followed by an international tour.

Mendes, married to actress Kate Winslet, has directed both movies and plays. He won an Oscar for "American Beauty."