Richard Dreyfuss and Rinde Eckert Will Be Imagining Heschel at Cherry Lane Theatre

Richard Dreyfuss and Rinde Eckert will star in Colin Greer's Imagining Heschel at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre. The limited engagement of this new work will run from November 4 through 28, with opening night set for November 8. Larry Moss will direct the production, which is presented by the Culture Project.

Dreyfuss' Broadway credits include Sly Fox, Death and the Maiden, Total Abandon and But, Seriously... He has appeared off-Broadway in Othello, The Exonerated, And Whose Little Boy Are You?, Trumbo: Red White and Blacklisted and Acrobats & Line. His many film credits include Jaws, Mr. Holland's Opus and The Goodbye Girl. Eckert has written several shows, including Orpheus X and Horizon, in which he also starred. His other plays include And God Created Whales.

The two-character play explores the interactions between Cardinal Augustin Bea and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel between 1962 and 1973, when Heschel was asked to aid the Vatican Council in formally exonerating the Jews for the death of Christ. Heschel resisted and demanded the Vatican apologize for their acquiescence to the Holocaust and an ideological test of wills ensues.