Legendary Actor Ed Asner Coming To West Hartford

WEST HARTFORD, CT — Legendary actor Ed Asner is coming to West Hartford as part of the upcoming spring tour of the critically acclaimed “The Soap Myth.” The live reading of the “Soap Myth” is presented by Voices of Hope and The Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave., in West Hartford.

The Soap Myth, starring Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Ed Asner and three-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh, takes place more than a half century after the end of WWII when a friendship develops between a young Jewish journalist and a cantankerous Holocaust survivor on a crusade regarding the Nazi atrocity of soap.

The Soap Myth dramatically “explores how a survivor survives surviving and questions who has the right to write history - those who have lived it and remember, those who study and protect it, or those who would seek to distort and desecrate its very existence,” according to a news release.

Tickets cost $35 in advance/$45 at the door. Purchase tickets at www.mandelljcc.org/tickets. For ticketing assistance call: 860.236.4571.