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Feldshuh plays Yentl with such
piercing sincerity you cannot help but be riveted by the actress' work.
New York Times - Clive Barnes (Yentl) |
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Tovah Feldshuh comes out as Dona
Flor and ignites the stage. New York Times - Richard Eder
(Sarava) |
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Tovah Feldshuh's performance is the
epitome of comic brilliance. WNEW-AM - Richmond Shepard (Lend
Me a Tenor) |
Presently,
Ms. Feldshuh stars on Broadway as Golda Meir, Israel's fourth Prime Minister (1969-1973), in
GOLDA'S BALCONY,
the latest work from William Gibson (The Miracle Worker) for which she
has been honored with the Drama Desk "Best Solo Performance" award 2003 and the
Lucille Lortel "Best Actress" award 2003 and an Outer Critics Circle Nomination
for best actress.
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Tovah Feldshuh gives such a fiercely
committed performance in this one-woman show that she does more than just
resurrect Golda Meir: she embodies an entire country! Enlightening.
NY Times |
Some of her other New York credits include the title roles in the Roundabout
Theatre's
She Stoops to
Conquer
and
Mistress of the
Inn,
BAM's
Three Sister's
with Rosemary Harris and Denhem Elliot, and roles on Broadway in
Cyrano
with
Christopher Plummer,
Rodgers and Hart,
and
Dreyfus in
Rehearsal. She
starred off-Broadway as Tallulah Bankhead in a piece she wrote entitled
Tallulah
Hallelujah!, which
ran four months on 42nd Street.
Tallulah
Hallelujah! was
chosen as one of the ten Best Plays of the Year by USA Today, and Miss Feldshuh
received the Best Actress Award from the Connecticut Critics Circle and a
nomination for Best Solo Performance from New York's Outer Critic's
Circle.
|
Tovah Feldshuh wraps herself in the
role of Tallulah Bankhead with such wild devotion, and looks so good in
her Margo Channing off the shoulder dress, she makes you feel as if you're
in the room with that profane life force. NY Times. Marks |
Besides Tallulah, she has also starred in Hartford as Vogue editor Diana
Vreeland in
Full Gallop.
As a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Center for Theater Arts, she
played the title role in
The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie.
Among other roles, Ms. Feldshuh has portrayed: Sarah
Bernhardt,
Stella Adler, Sophie Tucker, Katharine Hepburn, three queens of Henry VIII, and
nine Jews from birth to death in off-Broadway's
Hello Muddah,
Hello Fadduh. She
also appeared off-Broadway in the long-running hit
The Vagina
Monologues.
For her television work, she received the Emmy nomination for
Holocaust.
| As Helena Slomova,
the Czech freedom fighter, Feldshuh is brilliant. TV Guide Winner -
Emmy Nomination - Best Supporting Actress (Holocaust) |
She has starred opposite
Tommy Lee Jones in
The Amazing
Howard Hughes James
Woods in
Citizen Cohn,
and Bill Cosby on
The Cosby
Mysteries and
The Cosby Show,
to name a few. She has a recurring role as Danielle Melnick on
Law and Order,
played Richard Dreyfus' younger sister Sharon in
The Education of
Max Bickford, Robert
Loggia's love interest Marie Badalamenti in the upcoming series
Queens Supreme
and played Dr.
Bethany Rose on
As the World
Turns for over a
year. Her films include: the recently released Fox Searchlight picture
Kissing Jessica
Stein for which she
won the Golden Satellite Award as Best Supporting Actress;
|
Feldshuh gives an
achingly poignant and multilayered performance. Variety
|
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Feldshuh takes an ordinary scene and makes it extraordinary. Chicago
Sun-Times - Roger Ebert |
| Tovah Feldshuh, as
Jessica's confused, devoted mother, can nail a laugh and break your heart
with effortless grace; she's perfection. Rolling Stone - Peter Travers |
A Walk on the Moon
for Miramax;
|
Tovah Feldshuh is regal. She has an
earthiness and evokes common sense in a way almost no other actress can
do. NBC TV - Jeffrey Lyons |
Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei,
Friends and
Family,
3 Little Wolffs,
Toll Booth,
and
Old Love.
She also appeared in
The Corruptor with Mark Wahlberg,
Nunzio,
Cheaper to Keep
Her,
Daniel,
Brewster's Millions,
The Idolmaker,
The Blue Iguana,
A Day in October,
and
The Believer.
Tovah
Feldshuh made her cabaret debut at the famed Algonquin Oak Room in her act,
Tovah: Crossovah! From Broadway to Cabaret,
followed by 8 sold-out weeks off-Broadway of her one-woman show
TOVAH:
OUT OF HER MIND!.
| Tovah Feldshuh's
interpretive power as a singer wrings the emotional possibilities from a
song that is newly heard. New York Times - Alvin Klein |
In April 1999, she
opened at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia and has sung in Houston, Dallas, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Sydney, Australia, among others.
In New York, she performed for
Lyrics and Lyricists with Liza
Minnelli, and in Washington, D.C. was Mistress of Ceremonies for the National
Symphony at the Kennedy Center. The Boston Globe selected her as best Cabaret
Artist of 2000. She made her London West End debut at
the Duke of York's Theatre with
Tovah: Out of Her Mind!
, with subsequent performances at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
This past year she sang in concert with Billy Crystal in Los Angeles.
Ms. Feldshuh is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the winner of the
McKnight Fellowship to the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre where she started her career
under British director Michael Langham. For her charity work, she is the
recipient of the 2002 Jewish Image Award from the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture, Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, Hadassah's Myrtle Wreath and the
Israel Peace Medal. She is married to New York attorney Andrew Harris Levy, and
they have two children: Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire.
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