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Yiddish 'Fiddler on the Roof' Opens Off-Broadway

Published March 19, 2019 at 12:52 PM CDT
Steven Skybell, right, as Tevye, rehearses with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene cast of a Yiddish-language version of "Fiddler on the Roof," at the at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on June 19, 2018. (Richard Drew/AP)
Steven Skybell, right, as Tevye, rehearses with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene cast of a Yiddish-language version of "Fiddler on the Roof," at the at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on June 19, 2018. (Richard Drew/AP)

A production of “Fiddler on the Roof” done entirely in Yiddish was a surprise sell-out smash last summer. It was so popular that two Broadway producers have gotten behind it, and it’s reopening in the largest off-Broadway theater in New York. Reporter Jon Kalish (@kalishjon) has the story.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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