The play itself holds special interest for those struggling to be artists, or those struggling with the issues they confront as artists of any kind.ĭirected by Gordon Edelstein and adapted by playwright Aaron Posner from the best-selling novel by Chaim Potok. So actor Ari Brand told me in my article for Playbill about the play, “My Name Is Asher Lev,” opening tonight at the Westside Theater. It’s only in the rehearsal room and on the stage that we can remember why we do all this. “As working, and sometimes non-working, actors, we’re focused on paying the bills.
Do you know what that responsibility is?” the art teacher (Mark Nelson) asks his student, an art prodigy who is also an Orthodox Jew (Ari Brand) My Name Is Asher Lev: “You have a responsibility.
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