The Tempest
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 25, 2010
Closed Mar 13, 2010
Opened Feb 25, 2010
Closed Mar 13, 2010
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Following a critically acclaimed inaugural year, theater and Academy Award-winning film director Sam Mendes will again direct a transatlantic company of actors for the second season of The Bridge Project, a unique three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions devoted to producing large-scale, classical theater for international audiences. Running in repertory with As You Like It is Shakespeare's late masterpiece, The Tempest.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St
New York, NY 11217
This theater was renamed in honor of the recently-departed BAM founder Harvey Lichenstein. It is a 900-seat, restored and renovated movie house, operated by BAM as an additional auditorium for theater, dance, and music.
651 Fulton St
New York, NY 11217
This theater was renamed in honor of the recently-departed BAM founder Harvey Lichenstein. It is a 900-seat, restored and renovated movie house, operated by BAM as an additional auditorium for theater, dance, and music.
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A gentle, subtle magic permeates Sam Mendes' staging of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, now being presented by the Bridge Project at BAM's Harvey Theatre.
It's felt from the moment Stephen Dillane, playing once-duke of Milan Prospero, walks onstage and begins traversing a circle of sand that has been placed center stage (part of the beautifully spare scenic design from Tom Piper). He sprinkles water from a bucket onto the sand, conjuring a storm that will shipwreck his enemies -- and one friend, the faithful Gonzalo (the always reliable Alvin Epstein) -- on the island where he has lived with daughter Miranda (Juliet Rylance) since his brother Antonio (Michael Thomas) usurped the duked[...]