Golda's Balcony with Tony Award Winner Tovah Feldshuh

In her one-woman show, “Golda’s Balcony,” Broadway actress Tovah Feldshuh summons Zionist titan Golda Meir with such authenticity and takes the theater goer on a journey looking back on a life of passion, sorrow and responsibility.

A Russian exile who grew up in Milwaukee and later raised chickens in a Palestinian kibbutz, Meir (1898-1978) fell in love with politics while in her teens, and then followed her calling down a path of greatness, even when it came at some cost to her health, family and personal life.

Tovah Feldshuh is a force to be reckoned with so it should come as no surprise that Ms. Feldshuh says, "It's as if my whole life as an actress has led to this moment" -- this moment of her once again sending us onto the roller-coaster that was Golda Meir's life, with an integral cabinet meeting during the 6-day war used as a landing-and-launching pad to progress the personal and public story.

“Golda’s Balcony”, refers to the two balconies in her life: the one in her apartment, which overlooked Israel's prospering community development, and the one underground in the desert, which overlooked Israel's development for potential community destruction. Throughout the play, we learn of the two sides to Golda's political life. There is the public, grassroots, kibbutz-ethic Golda and the Golda who privately oversees the most destructive of man's creations, nuclear weapons.


"Golda's Balcony" tells the incomparable story of Golda Meir,
performed by Tony Award winning actress,
Tovah Feldshuh, the originator of the role.
August 31st and September 1st at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts.


“Golda's Balcony”opened Off-Broadway in 2003, where it sold out its entire 16-week run. Three months after closing Off-Broadway, Golda's Balcony opened October 15, 2003 at the Helen Hayes Theatre, where it ran for 14 previews and 493 performances, making it the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history.

Tovah Feldshuh most recently starred on Broadway as Irena Gut Opdyke in Irena’s Vow, for which she received the BroadwayWorld.com Theatre Fans’ Choice Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.  For her work on the New York stage, from Yentl to Saravà! to Lend Me A Tenor to Golda’s Balcony, she has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre World Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress (for Golda’s Balcony). 




Film audiences recognize Ms. Feldshuh from Fox Searchlight’s Kissing Jessica Stein, for which she won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress; A Walk On The Moon with Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen; Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei and The Corruptor with Mark Wahlberg.

On television, she received her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the Czech freedom fighter Helena in Holocaust.  She starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes, James Woods in Citizen Cohn, Bill Cosby on The Cosby Mysteries and The Cosby Show and Richard Dreyfuss in The Education Of Max Bickford.  She was nominated for her second Emmy for her work on Law & Order as defense attorney Danielle Melnick. 
                 
Golda’s Balcony performed by Tovah Feldshuh
August 31, 7:30 p.m. and September 1st at 2:00 p.m., 7:00p.m.
Tickets are $67 Admission and $62, JCC Members.
(All prices include service charge.)