Reviewer   Robert Cushman        Plays and Players
"Jim Dale's Petruchio is no roaring boy; forswearing his own brand of comic rhetoric he emerges as an unexpectedly quietist performer but possessed with a level of intensity that makes his victory as secure as would any amount of whip-cracking. Part of the performance derives of course from the mere fact that it is Mr. Dale who is giving it."

Reviewer     Simon Koster
"Jim Dale was a phenomenal Petruchio, as quick of movement as of tongue and radiating a catching humor."

Reviewer    P.W.B.           The Stage
"Humor in thick bold strokes is the essence, the keynote of this "Shrew". And how could it be otherwise with Jim Dale's Petruchio, a bantam-weight, but spry and sprightly, with a very deft touch and mocking air and ably extracting all the fun from the part. His isn't a gutsy, roaring Petruchio, more of a jolly Machiavelli, cunning and plotting his Taming, and in such a way as to get the most laughs from it."