“It’s three years since Kevin Spacey became artistic director of [London’s] venerable Old Vic Theatre, where John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier cast big shadows… Slammed repeatedly by the critics, roughed up by interviewers in glossy magazines, and condemned by outraged snobs for daring to take time away from the Vic to appear in a Superman movie, Spacey has had [a] bumpy showbiz ride… But this season, Spacey has become a hero, delivering such a moving and richly layered performance as O’Neill’s wasted, drunken womanizer that there is rarely an empty seat these nights at the Old Vic.”