WaPo review: A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ where everyone else in the audience can see you cry

[MezzA101]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 4:49pm

https://wapo.st/3LLnIAD

[inception]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 7:24pm

I looked at tickets for this, then I looked at getting there and back on transit from where I'm staying in DC and decided it was too much trouble. (Also, I don't feel like paying for an uber/lyft)

Right now waiting in the rain at a bus stop & a mentally ill guy is going right off.

I went to the Air & Space Museum today and it was very good. Then I went over to the Natural History Museum and I found it disappointing compared to the one in NYC.

So I went over & did the East Wing of the National Art Gallery, which hadn't reopened yet Friday - just the West Building.  I'm so glad I did because that's where Picasso's "Family of Saltimabanques" is.

Crazy guy just got on another bus.

 

[inception]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 7:35pm

The bus I wanted drove right by the stop at full speed.  The driver looked out the window as he went by & you could see he was thinking "Oh crap there was a stop there."

I'm on my to the Kennedy Center again for the Comedy show they have there "Shear Madness."

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 11/18/25 at 10:09pm

Sills is fantastic in this - as is most of the cast.   The biggest issue is the direction.  It's uneven, incongruent at times and has some weird pacing.  The director has apparently worked at this theater often, knows its intimacy, but the family table focus of this production has been done before, and better.   Sills is worth the ticket price even with before-seen directorial 'touches'. 

It made us miss the intimacy and strength of Yiddish production that played over the last 5 years in New York.  It's just hard to beat for its intimacy, charm and authentic language. Sills would have been great in that better version.

Updated On: 11/18/25 at 10:09 PM