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.

It is no wonder Zero Mostel was a substantial man. No mere ectomorph could contain such a mass of contradictions. He possessed girth and surprising grace. His humor contained lethal truths as well as ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Comedian and actor Zero Mostel was a very funny and at times very angry man, known for his loyal friendship and volatile personality. Actor Jim Brochu has created a very funny, at ...

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The 26th annual New York Jewish Film Festival will run from January 11 through 24, and feature screenings of 29 films and shorts, including the U.S. premiere of William Kentridge’s Triumphs and ...

Chances are that even those who know Zero Mostel – from originating the role of Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof” on Broadway or starring as Max Bialystock in the Mel Brooks movie, “The Producers” – ...

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, ...

Jim Brochu is a big, fat Zero. This is a compliment: In his one-man show about the Jewish-American actor Zero Mostel, Brochu gets everything right in his impersonation - from the bulging eyes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Ensor, “Evil Doctors Maltreating a Patient” (1895), etching (after the painting “The Bad Doctors,” 1892), 7.1 x 9.9 inches, Wellcome Library, London (via Wikimedia) Recently I was delighted to ...

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 ...