Aaron Posner’s take on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is what you get from a writer who not only adores the material he’s adapting, but understands it precisely.

Jacobson and Whiddon in “The Seagull.” (courtesy Theater J) Written by DCist contributor Monica Shores It seems that Theater J’s artistic director Ari Roth, who adapted Chekov’s classic The Seagull for the company, knows his decision to infuse the play with a Jewish crisis of faith may be a hard sell. Much of the printed program of The Seagull On 16th Street is devoted to justifying this choice, which stemmed from a need to…