This world premiere play in Skokie recounts the important story of the courageous, Emmy-winning Gertrude Berg, but it only ...

The Gertrude Berg Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from October 4, 1961 to April 5, 1962. The series centers on Sarah Green, played by Gertrude Berg, a 62-year-old widow who enrolls to ...

The world premiere play will be many audiences’ introduction to Gertrude Berg, a television pioneer who refused to back down.

The First Lady of Television” — 3 stars “On your toes, darlings.” Broadcast pioneer and writer/actor Gertrude Berg — as imagined by playwright James Sherman and portrayed by the ...

Northlight Theatre has extended its 50th Anniversary season opener, James Sherman’s The First Lady of Television, directed by ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 1950, Gertrude Berg was the popular creator and star of America’s first ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Before America loved Lucy, it said yoo-hoo to Molly Goldberg. The chatty, working-class New Yorker was a character written and ...

Before America loved Lucy, it said yoo-hoo to Molly Goldberg. The chatty, working-class New Yorker was a character written and portrayed by Gertrude Berg on radio and then on television. Yet although ...

Women pioneers in the TV industry are often overlooked. But a new book argues that four women were behind some key TV formats. Irna Phillips created the soap opera. Gertrude Berg created one of the ...

This week Mrs. Gertrude Berg, authoress and leading lady of The Goldbergs (“Rags to Riches” with a Yiddish accent), becomes practically inescapable. Her program, which originated in 1929, is already ...

Gertrude Berg left this world at the age of 68 on September 14, 1966, two months to the day before I entered it. I’d like to think that maybe our souls met one another in a possible netherworld ...

Gertrude Berg was a remarkable mid-20th-century figure: a prodigious radio and TV writer and producer, an entrepreneur, a Tony and Emmy winner, a star. As radio journalist Susan Stamberg says early on ...