Theater lovers are in luck. One of New York's great actresses is on stage again. Tovah Feldshuh plays Golda Meir in Golda's Balcony, a powerful, moving tour-de-force performance of the life of the leader of Israel, a woman both strong and vulnerable, beginning as a young Zionist and leading up to the fateful critical events when she is Premier in a time of war.
Anna Louizos's amazing set suggests a bunker, which is used as the screen for projections by Batwin & Robin. As directed by Scott Schwartz, Ms. Feldshuh's many characterizations, accents, physicalizations, as she becomes the people she talks about, are all clear, clean, separate, and fully realized. In Golda's Balcony, history is vividly brought to life by a brilliant actress in an inspired performance filled with high drama and leavened with humor.
