Kevin Spacey stars as the iconic Shakespearean king at BAM in final production of the Bridge Project (photo by Manuel Harlan)
Brooklyn Academy of Music
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St. between Ashland & Rockwell Pl.
Through March 4, $30-$135
718-636-4100
www.bam.org
Three years ago, BAM began the Bridge Project, a partnership with Sam Mendes’s Neal Street Productions and the Old Vic, headed by Kevin Spacey, staging The Winter’s Tale and Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard in 2009 and The Tempest and As You Like It in 2010. After taking last year off, the project concludes with Richard III, directed by Mendes and starring Spacey as the iconic Shakespearean king notably played previously by such stalwarts as Laurence Olivier, Ian McKellen, John Barrymore, Kenneth Branagh, Alec Guinness, Ian Holm, and Al Pacino. As part of the initiative, the three-hour play, which runs at BAM’s Harvey Theater through March 4, features a cast of both American and British actors, including Simon Lee Phillips, Hannah Stokely, Jack Ellis, Gemma Jones, Stephen Lee Anderson, Katherine Manners, and others bridging the Atlantic.