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Discovered in Translation: Actor Avi Hoffman Plays a Yiddish-Speaking Willy Loman by Mark Dundas Wood

At age 10 Avi Hoffman (born Avrum Ber, in 1958) made his theatrical debut in a Yiddish Folksbiene Theater production called Bronx Express. In the decades that followed, the performer, a son of Holocaust survivors, has appeared in a wide range of theatrical endeavors, both in New York City and regionally. He's played in Shakespeare's The Tempest and in such American musicals as Dear World and Closer Than Ever. Hoffman…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:06PM on October 10, 2015

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