The Chosen

Theater J, Washington, DC

About the Show

Chaim Potok’s beloved novel about the conflict between two religious families is brought to the stage in this sparkling new adaptation by Potok himself. Reuven Malter is a modern Orthodox teenager who declares war on Danny Saunders, a Chasidic Orthodox teen who gets the best of Reuven in a killer game of sandlot baseball. The heart-rending story of friendship that follows will shed light and warmth in this gleaming, streamlined rendition of one of the seminal works in American Jewish literature.