Making ‘The Performance’ kept Jeremy Piven on his toes

Making ‘The Performance’ kept Jeremy Piven on his toes

For Jeremy Piven, “The Performance,” available on streaming platforms, is a passion project with familial and historical purpose. At 59, Piven remains best known as volcanically explosive Hollywood super agent Ari Gold on “Entourage” and the ambitious Yank who taught the Brits what makes a mighty department store in the PBS biographical “Mr. Selfridge” series. “Performance” casts him as Harold May, an American tap dancer touring 1930s Europe wit…