City College of New York (BS) Columbia University (MSW)
Occupation(s)
Author, playwright
Spouses
Sadie Singer Stein
(died 1974)
Elisa Loti
(m. 1976–2010)
Children
3, including Harry Stein
Awards
Tony Award for Best Musical 1965 Fiddler on the Roof Tony Award for Best Author 1965 Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph Stein (May 30, 1912 – October 24, 2010[1]) was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.
^"Joseph Stein, Tony-Winning Fiddler on the Roof Librettist, Dies at Age 98".
JosephStein (May 30, 1912 – October 24, 2010) was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and...
JosephStein (10 April 1912 – 6 October 2001) was an American architect and a major figure in the establishment of a regional modern architecture in the...
Gladys (née Wool) and JosephStein. She was raised in Highland Park, Illinois. Her parents were descended from Russian Jews, and Stein was raised in a Reform...
before acting on the Broadway stage, starring as David Kolowitz in the JosephStein play Enter Laughing in 1963, for which he won the Tony Award for Best...
musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by JosephStein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905....
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed...
(Jerry Bock), a lyricist (Sheldon Harnick) and the writer of the "book" (JosephStein). In rare cases, the composer writes everything except the dance arrangements...
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now...
Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by JosephStein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague. One of the first...
founded in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by brothers Albert, Phillip and Joseph L. Steiner. The company was named after the street where the original corporate...
is a major dramatic engine of the story. The musical Rags – book by JosephStein, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and music by Charles Strouse – incorporates...
an Joseph Joachim, 3 vols., Berlin: Julius Bard, 1911–1913 Hans Gál, Johannes Brahms: His Work and Personality, transl. from German by JosephStein, Knopf...
the 2007 revival of I and Albert. Other credits include A Tribute to JosephStein at the York Theatre and A Christmas Carol at the Westport Country Playhouse...
play Ah, Wilderness, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by JosephStein and Robert Russell. The idea to musicalize Ah, Wilderness came to David...
Franz Joseph von Stein (4 April 1832 – 4 May 1909) was Archbishop of München und Freising from 1897 until 1909. Born 4 April 1832, Amorbach, on 10 August...
Hans (1963). Johannes Brahms: His Work and Personality. Translated by JosephStein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Geiringer, Karl (1981). Brahms: His Life...
Edith Stein, OCD (religious name: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism...
Workshop. Bock spoke at the funeral of 98-year-old Fiddler playwright JosephStein just 10 days before his own death, from heart failure at 81, less than...
Enter Laughing is a 1963 play by JosephStein. A farce in two acts, it is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Carl Reiner. The action centers on...
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