Yiddish 'Fiddler on the Roof' extends its run, more theater news

THE SHOW “Hamilton”

THE DEAL "Hamilton" has found a great way to say Happy Halloween: virtually every seat for the Wednesday night, Oct. 31, performance will be sold for $10 each via a digital lottery. Theatergoers can enter the lottery through Oct. 24 using the show’s official app. It was simultaneously announced that Denée Benton (“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”) will take over the role of Eliza in the Broadway production beginning Oct. 30.

THE SHOW "Smokey Joe’s Café"

THE DEAL The new Off-Broadway revival of the nostalgic rock-and-roll revue “Smokey Joe’s Café” will close on Nov. 4 following 121 performances at Stage 42. A national tour and cast album of the new production are in the works. By comparison, the original Broadway production ran for five years in the 1990s, making it the longest-running revue in Broadway history. 

THE SHOW "Fiddler on the Roof"

THE DEAL Owing to high ticket demand, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Yiddish-language production of “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park City has been extended for the fourth and final time, through Dec. 30. More than 40,000 people have already attended the production (which provides English and Russian supertitles for the non-Yiddish speaking).

THE SHOW "Ink"

THE DEAL Bertie Carvel (“Matilda”) and Jonny Lee Miller (“Elementary”) will return to Broadway as media baron Rupert Murdoch and newspaper editor Larry Lamb, respectively, in “Ink,” a new drama by James Graham (“Finding Neverland”) about the young Murdoch taking over The Sun in 1969 London. Carvel and Miller have already played the roles in London. “Ink” will play the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre starting in April.