Set in post-war Brooklyn, My Name is Asher Lev tells the powerful story of a boy prodigy who must paint at any cost -- against the will of family, community and tradition. It is a luminous portrait of ...

Well, the superb Fountain Theatre and its resident genius-in-chief, Stephen Sachs, have done it again. They've mounted a just-about-perfect production: Chaim Potok's classic novel "My Name is Asher ...

Chaim Potok was an incredibly gifted writer. "My Name Is Asher Lev," an intricate story of conflicts in morality and social acceptance versus personal desires, is one worth telling to an audience. But ...

Art-world provocations have been a running theme with the Round House Theatre this season, beginning with an almost sadistically slick update of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and continuing through the ...

PITTSFIELD -- Playwright Aaron Posner is not one to sell the art of adaptation short. "I love the process of finding stories that are engaging and asking how they can be reimagined in another form," ...

Chuck Winning (left) and Spencer Sickmann in "My Name Is Asher Lev." Ask most theatergoers what they remember about a performance, and they’re likely to focus on the acting. But quite a lot can be ...

To some, religion is a kind of art. To others, art a kind of religion. But to a tortured few who live in the uncomfortable space between the two, both are true. And each is impossible to reconcile ...

What an amazing amount of wisdom and insight has been packed into the ninety minute play My Name is Asher Lev about a young Jewish painter growing up in a very orthodox household. This play is about ...