Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen
Reuven and Danny spend their childhoods living five blocks apart, but only meet for the first time as teenagers when a contentious baseball game ends with one of them in the hospital. This sets the scene for The Chosen, adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok based on Potok’s 1967 novel of the same name. While the play has been performed for the last twenty years, this past weekend’s opening at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles marks the west coast premiere of a new, streamlined version that reduces the number of actors by one, amongst other changes. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw
Chaim Potok’s novel The Chosen was a best seller when it came out in 1967, and it remains a staple of middle school reading lists to this day. It’s the story of two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn in the 1940s: Reuven, raised by his gentle widowed dad as an observant orthodox Jew, and Daniel, whose exacting father is a Hassidic rabbi who shuns all things secular and plans for his son to follow in his footsteps. While the play has been performed for the last twenty years, this past weekend’s opening at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles marks the west coast premiere of a new, streamlined version that reduces the number of actors by one, amongst other changes.
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Now running through March 25