Mandy Patinkin Shouts, Sings Yiddish in Anne Frank Play: Review

In “Compulsion,” an over-the-top psychodrama at New York’s Public Theater, Mandy Patinkin plays a literary critic and novelist who nursed a decades-long obsession to bring his adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary to the stage.

Playwright Rinne Groff based the character on Meyer Levin, whose 1952 New York Times review of “The Diary of a Young Girl” helped make the translation a best seller.