Playwright and actor Jim Brochu bears a remarkable resemblance to the late Zero Mostel, fondly remembered for his star turns in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof.

Kail will also produce the film with Dan Jinks and Aaron Harnick. The original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof had the first musical-theatre run to surpass 3,000 performances. The show won ...

Monday the Folksbiene theater is remembering “Fiddler on the Roof” for its 50th anniversary. Today I’m remembering that following its original star, the late Zero Mostel, came a symphony of Fiddlers.

Any playwright attempting a solo biographical play had better make sure he's chosen a fascinating subject. Because the "zero" in question is the late, great Zero Mostel. Brochu stars as the unique, ...

This illustration is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board with a 12.50" x 12.00" image. Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the opening of Zero Mostel in Hal Prince`s production of ...

To a Jew growing up in New York in the 1950s and ’60s, Theodore Bikel was bigger than Zero Mostel, bigger than Peter, Paul & Mary, bigger than Yul Brynner. He was Broadway, Greenwich Village and ...

PITTSFIELD - Actor Jim Brochu had never heard of Zero Mostel until his father took him to see the legendary Broadway star in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." "He came out on that ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After four years of scouring Youtube for Yiddish-language videos to feature in the Forverts’ weekly cultural supplement Oneg Shabes, I thought ...