TOVAH!!!!!
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Who doesn’t know legendary actress Tovah Feldshuh?! (If you don’t, now you will!) Tovah, the subject of an upcoming documentary which just premiered at the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center, is an all-time Broadway and screen great. She’s currently starring at Adam Brody’s mother Bina in Nobody Wants This. I interviewed Tovah for the second time as part of Totally Booked: Live in New York where she received a standing ovation.
Last night in Los Angeles, Tovah joined my mother, Kyle, and me for dinner and opening night of the stage performance of my book On Being Jewish Now and she will star in my brother Teddy’s upcoming film Tuner. She calls herself our family’s babysitter. We just adore her. Hear our conversation and learn more about her memoir Lilyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. It was such a thrill that Tova Feldschu came to totally booked live. She was our |
| 0:49.8 | last event of the day. Everybody who was there gave her a standing ovation at the end because |
| 0:55.4 | she's just so amazing. And this will be like all of the ones from Totally Book Live, a TV episode |
| 1:01.7 | soon on JBS. This one is for sure worth watching because just the way that she expresses |
| 1:07.8 | herself and the accents and her body language. She is just a master. |
| 1:12.5 | Tova was on my podcast years ago when her book came out called Lilyville, Mother, Daughter, |
| 1:17.9 | and other roles I've played, which was a lot about her mother. But Tova is a six-time |
| 1:23.2 | Emmy and Tony nominee and has been awarded three honorary doctorates of Humane Letters. |
| 1:28.2 | She has won four drama desks, four Outer Critic Circle Awards, three drama logs, the OB, |
| 1:33.7 | the theater world, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. |
| 1:38.3 | She has recently been dominated twice as Best Actress in a Drama in Los Angeles for her work in the play Sisters-in-law |
| 1:45.5 | in which she originated the role of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| 1:49.8 | I saw her when she did in a phenomenal depiction of Dr. Bruce Westheimer in Bay Street |
| 1:56.2 | Theater in Sag Harbor. |
| 1:57.5 | And of course, I am watching her nonstop and nobody wants this as Bina, Adam Brody's |
| 2:03.3 | mom. Listen to our podcast and be inspired. Welcome to Totally Booked Live at The Whitby. So excited |
| 2:11.3 | to be here with Tova. Felt you. You don't even need to say her last day. Tova. |
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