CRITICS
Hear what the critics are saying about:

TALLULAH HALLELUJAH!

USA Today
"Gloriously Bawdy! Consummately entertaining! ***1/2" (three and 1/2 stars)

WOR Radio
"A must see! A hit! Simply sensational!"

NY Times
"A commanding performer! Delicious! Ms. Feldshuh sings beautifully!"

NY Daily News
"Vivacious, bawdy spirit! Plenty of comedy!"

Time Out New York
"A tour-de-force! A dazzling performance!"

NY Times (Marks)
"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."

The Bergen News (Ledford)
"Ms. Feldshuh develops the Bankhead persona so subtly and deeply, that we forget we are no longer in the presence of the legend herself."

Variety (Robert L. Daniels)
"Feldshuh is a splendid actress who comes to grips with the glamorous, devilishly naughty, controversial, wildly funny, and formidable Tallulah Bankhead."

YENTL
Winner Tony Nomination Best Actress, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle and Theatre World Award.

Bergen Record
"A star is born!"

New York Times (Clive Barnes)
"Feldshuh plays Yentl with such piercing sincerity you cannot help but be riveted by the actress' work."

New York Post (Martin Gottfried)
"Feldshuh brilliant as Yentl."

THE IDOLMAKER

Hollywood Reporter
"As Brenda Roberts, editor of TEEN SCENE MAGAZINE, Tovah Feldshuh is a standout."

HOLOCAUST

Time Magazine
"The acting is of extraordinary quality...particularly Tovah Feldshuh as Helena, the gentle wartime wife."

TV Guide Winner - Emmy Nomination - Best Supporting Actress
"As Helena Slomova, the Czech freedom fighter, Feldshuh is brilliant."

LEND ME A TENOR
Winner - Drama Desk Award, Outer Critic's Circle Award, 3rd Tony Nomination - Best Actress

WNEW - AM (Richmond Shepard)
"Tovah Feldshuh's performance is the epitome of comic brilliance. If she doesn't get a Tony, there's something wrong with the commitee."

A WALK ON THE MOON

Daily Variety
"Vet Feldshuh is pic's strongest asset."

NBC TV (Jeffrey Lyons)
"Tovah Feldshuh is regal. She has an earthiness and evokes common sense in a way almost no other actress can do."

Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)
"One of the most refreshing aspects of the film is Lillian, played with effective understatement by Tovah Feldshuh."

New York News Day (John Anderson)
"Tovah Feldshuh is a scene stealer in a uniformly outstanding  performance."

AWAKE AND SING!

New York Times (Ben Brantley)
"As Bessie Berger, Ms. Feldshuh's smart, unsentimental performance freshly brings to light what is singular about Odets's version of the suffocating mother. Feldshuh has taken the most hackneyed traits of the domineering Jewish mother and turned them into steely weapons in a one-woman war against poverty."

ROMEO AND JULIET

New West Magazine (William Murray)
"Best of all was the Juliet of Tovah Feldshuh, whose every line was delivered with conviction and unerring sense of truth. 'Once in a blue moon or so,' wrote Shaw, 'there wanders onto the stage some happy fair whose eyes are lodestars and whose tongue's sweet air's more tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear.' This is the Juliet I think he would have loved. I certainly did."

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST

Variety (Bill Edwards)
"Tovah Feldshuh's performance of Regina deserves a place in theatrical history books."

THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE

Associated Press (Mary Campbell)
"Tovah Feldshuh was wonderful as Kitty Duval, the prostitute lonely for her lost family."

Daily Record (Simon Saltzman)
"Feldshuh gets more depth and poignancy than is imaginable from Kitty Duval, a prostitute with a truly untarnished heart of gold."

THREE SISTERS

Time Magazine (Jack Kroll)
"Tovah Feldshuh plays Irina like an iron butterfly. Glorious."

SARAVA
Winner - Tony Nomination, Best Actress in a Musical

New York Times (Richard Eder)
"Tovah Feldshuh comes out as Dona Flor and ignites the stage."

THE CRUCIBLE

Boston Globe
"Feldshuh shines as Abigail Williams. Her seduction of John Proctor as well as the court of Salem is shattering."

THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES

New York Daily News
"As Katharine Hepburn, Tovah Feldshuh is superb."

NAMES

New York Daily News
"As Stella Adler, Feldshuh arouses, seduces, and conquers the men in the cast of NAMES and the audience in the theatre. Welcome back to off-Broadway!"

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

San Diego Tribune (Bill Hagen)
"Feldshuh makes great sense out of the purehearted Isabella in one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, and is thus able to move us immeasurably."

TOVAH: OUT OF HER MIND!

New York Times (Alvin Klein)
"Tovah Feldshuh's interpretive power as a singer wrings the emotional possibilities from a song that is newly heard."

New York Times (Lawrence Van Gelder)
"Gifted Tovah Feldshuh deftly evokes laughter, wrings the heart and brings a tear to the eye."

New York Post (Clive Barnes)
"Feldshuh, with a truly beautiful singing voice, presents a deliciously diverting one person show. Impossible not to like, hard not to love."

Boston Globe (Dyer)
"Tovah Feldshuh is so talented its scary. Her one-woman show displays Feldshuh's gifts as a stand-up comic, writer, actress, dancer, and singer in several languages and styles -- and she's wonderful at all of them."

TOVAH: OUT OF HER MIND!

Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)
"The most accomplished of actresses...what a pleasure it is to see her receive a role of such breadth and depth!"

Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
"Tovah Feldshuh, as Jessica's confused, devoted mother, can nail a laugh and break your heart with effortless grace; she's perfection." 

Variety (Lael Lowenstein)
"Feldshuh gives an achingly poignant and multilayered performance as Judy Stein." 

New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
"Feldshuh has one spectacular scene, long and done in one take, which shows how splendid a comedy can be!"

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"Feldshuh takes an ordinary scene and makes it extraordinary." 

Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
"I've never seen Feldshuh steal the show so completely and definitively!" 

San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
"Tovah Feldshuh has the kindest eyes onscreen." 

Out Magazine (Jeffrey Epstein)
"Tovah Feldshuh steals every scene she's in with understated comedic genius." 

Film Journal International (Doris Toumarkine)
"It's the stunning performance of Feldshuh, so nuanced and moving as the mother (especially in one poignant single-take scene) that stands out." 

2001 Outfest Journal
" A wonderful performance by Tovah Feldshuh... perfect..." 

TOVAH: OUT OF HER MIND!

New York Times (Alvin Klein)
"Tovah Feldshuh's interpretive power as a singer wrings the emotional possibilities from a song that is newly heard."

New York Times (Lawrence Van Gelder)
"Gifted Tovah Feldshuh deftly evokes laughter, wrings the heart and brings a tear to the eye."

New York Post (Clive Barnes)
"Feldshuh, with a truly beautiful singing voice, presents a deliciously diverting one person show. Impossible not to like, hard not to love."

Boston Globe (Dyer)
"Tovah Feldshuh is so talented its scary. Her one-woman show displays Feldshuh's gifts as a stand-up comic, writer, actress, dancer, and singer in several languages and styles -- and she's wonderful at all of them."

GOLDA'S BALCONY!

2004 Tony Campaign
"The Performance of the Year, the Story of a Lifetime"

New York Times
"Tovah Feldshuh gives such a fiercely committed performance that she does more than just resurrect Golda Meir: she embodies an entire country!" 

Associated Press
"Tovah Feldshuh's marvelous, skillful portrayal of the indomitable Golda Meir will remain in your mind long after the curtain has come down!" 

New York Magazine (John Simon)
"It's marvelous when an actor and a role that seem to be waiting for each other meet an incandescent embrace. Tovah Feldshuh's acting fleshes, indeed souls Golda Meir out to munificent overflowing. GOLDA'S BALCONY is the perfect merging of playwright, actress, and character."

New York Post
"Tovah Feldshuh realizes Golda Meir with overwhelming force."  

Elie Wiesel
"Tovah Feldshuh's performance is brilliant!" 

HELLO, DOLLY!

New York Times
“Ms. Feldshuh places her own stamp on one of the musical theater's most celebrated female roles. As they say in old Eire, you go, girl! Her singing is vibrant and assured; petite and svelte, she dances persuasively too! In giving Dolly a new voice, Ms. Feldshuh helps restore to her some of the simple humanity lost under accretions of stardust.” 

The Star Ledger
"Tovah Feldshuh is a force-of-nature! Funny, smart and talented! Audiences will be won over by HELLO, DOLLY!" 

Home News Tribune
"Tovah Feldshuh's infectious charm creates a memorable Dolly."

The Princeton Packet
"If there was any question as to whether or not Tovah Feldshuh could handle HELLO, DOLLY! with conviction, relax — she's just plain terrific. The enthusiastic standing ovation at every performance at Paper Mill Playhouse is no fluke." 

Worrell Publishing
"There’s a brand new refreshing Dolly in town -- an incredible, petite, talented bombshell in the form of Tovah Feldshuh is delighting Paper Mill Playhouse audiences with her explosive interpretation of the character, Dolly Gallagher Levi, in the musical, HELLO, DOLLY! The versatile Feldshuh can raise an audience to the very height of excitement -- the audience gave her an uproarious, ear-splitting standing ovation." 

 

TOVAH IN A NUTSHELL

From Stephen Holden, The New York Times:
“Drive…gusto…she is in there swinging” 

From John Simon, Broadway.com:
"The amazing Tovah Feldshuh is a lot of things: dramatic actress, stand-up comic, agile clown, lover of good English, and in some ways smarter than THE NEW YORK TIMES. At nine that evening, Feinstein's was the place to be for sovereign entertainment...Solid fun! Tovah has a rich voice, well deployed from falsetto to contralto... she knows that to put across a song you must be able also to act it out, and that she can do with a vengeance...what you get is hearty laughs from a canny raconteur and genuine actress! Catch Tovah in her NUTSHELL!"

From Rex Reed, New York Observer:
"Tovah Feldshuh’s master class in versatility at Feinstein’s is called “Tovah in a Nutshell.” The stage is small and the atmosphere intimate, but there’s plenty of space to showcase the many faces of Tovah. You feel like she’s throwing a party in her own family room and you’re invited! She’s quick, she’s funny, she’s agile, her talent is so bountiful you forget how petite she is."

From Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly online(www.ew.com):
"petite powerhouse singer/actress"..."There's something about Tovah Feldshuh that's instantly warm, welcoming, and invigorating. Tovah is at her best when she's simply being herself crooning a breathy, torchy ''That Old Black Magic,'' pouring her optimism into a tinkly ''On a Clear Day,'' [or] channeling her father and her younger self for a Gershwin medley [that’s] the highlight of the evening…Fascinatin’ Tovah! Of Tovah We Sing!"

From Steven Suskin, Daily Variety:
"An impressively abundant array of talents...she has patrons firmly in her grasp."
"Feldshuh tells jokes, sings songs, and limns myriad characters...a visit with an Irish-Jewish girl in pigtails is enchanting."
"It is hard to imagine that any current day performer beyond Bette Midler could score with five minutes of Sophie Tucker, yet Feldshuh brings the old Yiddishe Momme alive with all the sparkle of Mae West." 

From Jonathan Warman, New York Blade:
“Few performers are as hilarious as Broadway favorite Tovah Feldshuh. The jokes…are joyous and the moments of sentiment genuine and touching.”