Been checking each day and just found it opened without warning:

http://www.oldvictheatre.com/

Thanks for this...I too had been checking every day as October was drawing to a close! Ticket prices are a bit steep but have plumped for The Cherry Orchard with tickets in the balcony! I think I will have to make do with Winter's Tale at Stratford as the credit crunch bites! Not many Sat matinees so August 8th it is....seems a long way away!!!

Many thanks for this Duncan, I have found in the past that the Old Vic are pretty poor in their communications skills. Being away from the interweb last week, I rang their box office to be told that booking would open on Wednesday. I should of course have asked "when" on Wednesday as after checking yesterday morning and lunchtime I simply assumed I had been given duff info when it was obvious that booking hadn't opened.

Im quite tempted at seeing a few shows but cant afford £40 a ticket - and the cheaper seats all appear to have restrictions, are the restrictions that bad?

I am quite tall at 6ft5 and never been to the Old Vic any advice would be welcome

I've sat right at the back of the stalls and in the middle of the top tier, and both were fine since it's not a particularly massive theatre. The most annoying bit about sitting at the back is the constant creaking due to people shuffling their feet and squirming about upstairs. I hope they've managed to carry out a bit of a refurb amidst the changes for the Norman Conquests - last time I went to the Old Vic (to see The Entertainer) I was surprised by how shabby the auditorium was.

I bow to no one in my love for SRB so have opted for good seats for both the Bridge plays. I'd really like to see Lughnasa but, as you say, it's getting a bit pricey so I'm going to leave it and hope it turns up on TKTS.

Duncan, thanks so much for the tip-off. You could almost overlook it on the site if you didn't know what 'The Bridge Project' is. I'm amazed this incredibly mouthwatering theatrical prospect hasn't been bigger news yet. Though I'm sure it will be soon. Can't wait to see what Ethan Hawke does as Autolycus, although it's the SRB-Cusack-Hall combo as Leontes, Paulina and Hermione that I'm really excited about. Does anybody know are they doing Brooklyn before or after London?

This project has had quite a bit of publicity over the past months. The plays are on in Brooklyn first starting January then touring before ending up at the Old Vic. I know they are offering season discounts but i think they have missed a trick in not offering a deal where if you book for both plays there is a discount. I am looking forward to the Cherry Orchard most.

im going to hold out for a WOS event for these i think!

Big thanks Duncan had completely missed this. So may be a bit of a daft question but is the entire cast in both plays?

Oh the cast lists are on the old vic web sites aren't they, please ignore me.

The other mouth-watering prospect about the Bridge Project is the American Coast of Utopia production combo of Ethan Hawke, Richard Easton (anyone remember him in The Brothers?) and Josh Hamilton. All wonderful in COU.

The Brothers. Yes, of course. Not quite up to the standard of the Donmar's big-screen casting policy then.

Does anyone know if you can book tickets in person at the box office for Winter tale and Cherry Orchard or it's just on line at the moment please?

"The Brothers. Yes, of course. Not quite up to the standard of the Donmar's big-screen casting policy then. "

Easton's bloody good, wait and see - he's done a ton of stage stuff in North America since The Brothers (I wonder what happened to the woman who played his horrible wife in that?) And they have got Ethan Hawke. Not quite so sure about him ("all wonderful in COU" was a slight exaggeration - think I preferred Douglas Henshall as Bakunin myself) but I'm keen to see.

The refigured seating in the round stays for Lughnasa if that might be an influence for some. I haven't been yet to the Norman Cs so don't know what this looks like. Then it goes back to normal for the Bridge Project but stalls starts at D.

btw, sorry Jan, got mixed up, it is the Old Vic of course discussed here that has Complicit and the Almeida has When the rain stops falling which I couldn't get date for. I know you will forgive me. So much to book, so little time.