Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on October 24, 2014

My Name Is Asher Lev

CATCO AND GALLERY PLAYERS, RIFFE CENTERS STUDIO TWO THEATRE, 77 S. HIGH ST.

Contacts: 614-469-0939, http://www.catcoistheatre.org

Showtimes: 7:30 tonight (preview), 8 p.m. Friday (opening), 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, 8 p.m. Oct. 30-31, Nov. 1 and Nov. 6-8 and 2 p.m. Nov. 2 and 9

Tickets: $30 to $45, $11.50 for weekday matinees

A promising young artist is torn between individualism and tradition and between his art and his religion in My Name Is Asher Lev.

CATCO and Gallery Players are collaborating on the area premiere of the off-Broadway play, set to open Friday in the Riffe Centers Studio Two Theatre.

Its a compelling story about . . . what kind of sacrifices artists have to make, what it is to tell the truth and being other in a pre-secular world, director Steven Anderson said.

Aaron Posner adapted the play from Chaim Potoks bestselling 1972 novel about a boy with extraordinary artistic talent who grows up in the late 1950s in a devoutly religious family in Brooklyn.

Asher Lev yearns to become a painter despite opposition from his Hasidic Jewish family and community.

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'My Name Is Asher Lev' portrays artist's conflict with his art and religion

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