The cast of the Yiddish language production of Fiddler on the Roof have welcomed some special guests throughout their run. Among them have been Bernadette Peters, Joel Gray, Bebe Neuwirth, M…
Yente's milkshake brings the boys to the yard Cast members from the Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof, led by Jackie Hoffman as Yente, created a hilarious clip featuring the song Mil…
By: David Sheward August 4, 2018:Â A quartet of musical productions on and Off-Broadway mash up musical styles, time periods, and cultural perspectives. Three of these blenderizings re…
The Joel Grey-helmed production, which stars Jackie Hoffman, Steven Skybell, and Mary Illes, will continue through October 25.
Steven Skybell's Tevye warms up from a salt-of-the-earth, everyday philosopher to the much put-upon tragic existential hero upon whom God"to whom he speaks frequently"has heaped much tsouris…
By: Samuel L. Leiter July 24, 2018:Â In 2016, one year after the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene celebrated its centenary, it began producing an annual Yiddish-language musical pro…
Jackie Hoffman, who plays Yente in FIDDLER, and Daniel Kahn, who plays Perchik, were the first to jump to their feet at the evening's standing ovation.
The entire twenty-six-member cast is wonderful and works diligently to reach the core of this story in the native Yiddish language which proves to authenticate the time and place. They are s…
★★★★ Fiddler retains full enchantment in Joel Grey's Yiddish-language production The post Fiddler on the Roof: “If I Were a Rothschild,” in Yiddish appea…
A "baloney artist" on a train, an evil stepmother who curses angrily, a young woman in forbidden love, a hapless traveling business man " these are just some of the characters that comprise …
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's (NYTF) excellent Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof as directed by Joel Grey makes us fall in love with Tevye, his wife, Golde, and h…
A powerful new revival of the 1964 musical offers a kind of authenticity no other American "Fiddler" ever has: It's in Yiddish.
Rachel Zatcoff brought the BroadwayBox Instagram along for the opening night of off-Broadway's Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof.
New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia spoke it fluently as did James Cagney. Barbara Streisand can converse, and Judy Garland sang in it. Last night the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene pr…
The highly anticipated American premiere of the Yiddish language Fiddler on the Roof, presented by theNational Yiddish TheatreFolksbiene NYTF opened last night, Sunday, July 15. Let's see wh…
The Joel Grey-helmed production stars Jackie Hoffman, Steven Skybell, and Mary Illes.
The definitive "Fiddler."
Those who doubted that a Yiddish-language production of "A Fiddler on the Roof," directed by Joel Grey, would turn out to be a great joy ("a shtik naches") might react to Jackie Hoffman'…
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, Featuring Jackie Hoffman as Yente, Extends Off-Broadway Run The acclaimed new Yiddish-langua…
The production, which began performances July 4, will officially open July 15.
National Yiddish Theatre of Folksbiene artistic director Zalmen Mlotek makes the case for Yiddish theatre with Fiddler’s American premiere.
Calling all fans of Fiddler on the Roof.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF was a glossy musical version of Sholem Aleichem's stories. TEVYE SERVED RAW is the real deal, now playing off-Broadway.