Chaim Potok's 'My Name Is Asher Lev' Gets Awkward but Affecting Dramatization

Adapting a novel to the stage is a tricky proposition, especially one told in the first person. You can wind up with long monologues delivered by a narrator standing center stage with nothing going on around him or her. Aaron Posner’s theatrical version of “My Name Is Asher Lev,” Chaim Potok’s best-selling 1972 book, now at the Westside Theatre after a run at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theat…

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