"My Name is Asher Lev" at Round House Theatre

My Name is Asher Lev
By Aaron Posner
Adapted from the Chaim Potok novel
Directed by Jeremy Skidmore
March 17 April 11, 2010
Round House Theatre Bethesda, 4545 East-West Highway Metro: Bethesda
Helen Hayes Award winner Aaron Posners luminous new play is based on Chaim Potoks visionary novel. Possessing a prodigious artistic ability, Asher Lev is driven to draw and paint the world he sees and feels. Born into a Hasidic family in post-World War II Brooklyn, his artistic genius threatens to estrange him from both his parents and his community. Ashers journey is by turns heartbreaking and exultant as he must choose between art and faith.