Posted by Gerry Goldsholle (MTC Board Member)
September 17, 2009

Review: Peter Stadlen, the actor playing the title character Asher Lev, put on one of the most incredible performances I have had the pleasure of seeing in person.

Stadlen’s portrayal of Lev over a period of 20 years – first as as a young boy, then a youth, then as an adolescent and finally as a young – was a masterful. You not only could feel the character’s anguish but see the sweat.

In decades of attending live theater I can recall only 3 other equally memorable performances. And Mr. Stadlen is in very good company as two of the performances were by Sir Ian McKellen (one as Richard III in San Francisco and the other as King Lear in Stratford-on-Avon) and the third was by George C. Scott as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at Circle in the Square in New York in the 1970s.

Bravo!!!!