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Review - The Tempest - A Heavy Storm

New York Times

Music in Shakespeare’s Island Chaos
Mandy Patinkin puts the accent on fortissimo for much of this clean, largely well-acted staging of “The Tempest.”

Associated Press

A magnificent Mandy Patinkin propels 'The Tempest'
In the Classic Stage Company's eloquent new production of ''The Tempest,'' a storm at sea creates a brief cacophony of noise, confusion and shouting. The storm tosses a small ship's passengers and crew onto a deceptively peaceful, sandy island, where the sorcerer Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have watched the proceedings with interest.

Variety

Review: The Tempest
Mandy Patinkin has a beautiful voice, as warm and golden as honey spooned from a jar -- the perfect voice to sing us through "The Tempest," the most musical of Shakespeare's late plays. Toplined by Patinkin's commanding Prospero, this Classic Stage Company production slips through some earthbound staging constraints ...

Back Stage

The Tempest reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
Wisely, director Brian Kulick ends the first act with the interplay among Caliban, Trinculo, and Stefano. Leave 'em laughing is the byword, at least through the intermission.

TheaterMania

Review: hThe Tempest
Mandy Patinkin's ill-conceived portrayal of Prospero is just one of the problems in Brian Kulick's haphazard staging of Shakespeare's play.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Tempest
Want some pastrami with your redemption? You’ll get it, along with a heaping helping of thinly sliced ham, at Prospero’s Deli. If that sounds tasty, grab your umbrella and begin your trek to a New York sandwich shop so unique it’s currently doling out its wares from the Classic Stage Company stage. Stranger still, it’s in the guise of a play called The Tempest. . . .

CurtainUp

Review; The Tempest
Patinkin, looking quite imposing in his all white casual garb and sporting a neatly trimmed beard, rants with authoritative conviction and postures in a league with the better Prosperos I have seen . .