James Sherman's The First Lady of Television at Northlight tells a story from 1950 that's uncomfortably relevant for our times.

Cindy Gold plays Gertrude Berg, the creator and star of early sitcom The Goldbergs, in Northlight's The First Lady of ...

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 ...

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

The play puts Gertrude Berg front and center in a period piece embedded with a razor’s edge of contemporary urgency and spliced through with comedy.