Theater review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ stays grounded, looks backward and forward

A train pulls into a station, and a young man wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and carrying a book steps off and gazes around. That’s not the usual start of “Fiddler on the Roof,” but it’s how director Bartlett Sher begins his revival of this musical.
That man could be the great-great-grandson of Tevye, the Jewish father of five daughters who is at the center of this musical. The man pulls off the hoodie, dons a cap and reveals the knotted fringes of a prayer shawl. And no