![]() With most of the cast intact from its run at the Long Wharf in New Haven, “Asher Lev” features Ari Brand as both Asher and the narrator, with Mark Nelson and Jenny Bacon playing, respectively, the male and female characters in Asher’s life. Posner, who is known for his adaptation of Potok’s masterpiece, “The Chosen,” again distills a sprawling novel into a series of key, crisply written scenes. ![]() In Aaron Posner’s “My Name is Asher Lev,” the absorbing but overly reverential take on Chaim Potok’s 1972 novel that opened last week at the Westside Theater, a young chasidic painter launches a career that puts him squarely at odds with his family and community. And then how bewildering to live in a community that frowns on these gifts and forbids their expression. How terrifying to be a child prodigy, to possess stunning artistic skills without the emotional maturity to handle them. ![]()
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