Published: 9 August 2018
Last updated: 5 March 2024
The raw material is well-worn and familiar. Most or all of the performances are in Yiddish, presumably forcing the vast majority of theatregoers to look back and forth from the stage to supertitles projected on screens.
Yet tickets to Fiddler on the Roof, performed in Yiddish at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Tevye Served Raw (Garnished with Jews), running at the Playroom Theatre in Midtown, are very hard or next to impossible to come by.
Nu, what gives?
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