You don’t need to be Jewish to sing “biddy biddy bum.” In his review of Norman Jewison’s 1971 film version of the popular stage musical Fiddler on the Roof ...

A problem that is always faced with a revival is how to make it fresh. For the production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” which is playing at Stage 42 in New York City, the answer is to go back to its roots ...

Ombudsman’s columns, I like to think, are almost always serious compositions about important editorial issues arising on PBS. But among the things that I can, at times, have some fun with are the ...

I DON’T know if music can pass from person to person via DNA but the O’Connors of Co Louth would be prime candidates for a scientific study to find out. Gerry, like his siblings, learned the fiddle ...

It’s a long way from Cape Cod in 2007 to the Russian village of Anatevka in 1905. But it’s not that far a leap for Peter Milsky, who plays the lead role of Tevye, the Jewish dairyman and father, in ...

Joe Mozingo knew from an early age that his family name sounded “different.” While attending elementary school in Southern California, Mozingo heard his teachers stumble over the name, as they ...

NOW Fiddler's Green is a place I’ve heard tell... where people go to hear the finest trad and folk music in one of the most beautiful places in Ireland. Rostrevor’s Fiddler's Green festival will run ...

International sports of any kind always come with a heavier sense of pride. After all, players are playing as representatives of their respective countries as some of the best to play their sport. On ...