Spacey Woos Mendes Back to Old Vic

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SAM MENDES and Kevin Spacey have announced they are teaming up again, seven years after they won an Academy Award for American Beauty.

Mendes, 41, who made his name in British theatre before going on to find success as a Hollywood director, will direct six classical plays in three years for the Old Vic, of which Spacey, 47, is the artistic director.

Titled the Bridge Project, the plays will feature some of the best British and American stage actors, starring in a double-bill of classic works shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Old Vic and a third international venue, starting next year in thePiccolo Teatro, Milan.

Two British actors have …