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A Texan-born actor is the unlikely star of an unlikely Toronto stage event — a Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Broadway legend Joel Grey. Stage veteran Steven Skybell reprises his role this month, from the long-running production in New York City. What began as a planned six-week engagement in New York in 2018 turned into an 18-month sensation, performed more than 500 times. Set in the fictional shtetl of Anatevka in the early 1900s, Fiddler on the Roof follows Tevye, against the backdrop of the looming threat of Tsarist oppression, while challenged by...