Teller’s ‘Tempest’ sets sail for Southern California

Prospero (Tom Nelis) levitates Miranda (Charlotte Graham) during a performance of “The Tempest” last week at The Smith Center. At left is the spirit Ariel (Nate Dendy). (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Ariel (Nate Dendy), left, and Prospero (Tom Nelis) perform in "The Tempest" at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Friday. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

If you’ve been suffering “Tempest” withdrawal since the world premiere revamp of Shakespeare’s magical tale closed at The Smith Center in late April, hang on. Help is on the way.

Of course, you’ll have to wait a few months — and drive a few hours — to catch “The Tempest” at the Tony-winning, Orange County-based South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif.

“The Tempest” will lead off SCR’s 2014-15 season, running Aug. 29-Sept. 28 on SCR’s main Segerstrom Stage.

Adapted and directed by Teller and Aaron Posner — with magic by Teller, music by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan and shape-shifting movement by Pilobolus’ Matt Kent — “The Tempest” debuted in April in a Symphony Park tent that underlined the play’s traveling-carnival concept.

A co-production of the Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., “The Tempest” continues at ART’s Loeb Drama Center through June 15.

“The (Cambridge) run is very close to sold out already with the box office doing banner business,” Teller e-mails. “I couldn’t be happier.”

More information on South Coast Repertory is available at www.scr.org.