The multi-talented Tovah Feldshuh -- yes, she still does cartwheels -- is best known onstage for playing the Jewish title characters in Yentl and Golda's Balcony and offstage for promoting Judaism as one of her abiding causes. So it's hardly surprising that she's put her abilities to muted but determined good use as the quietly heroic, Polish Catholic Irena Gut Opdyke in Dan Gordon's powerful if predictable Irena's Vow, now at the Baruch Center for the Performing Arts.

In the play, for which Gordon has taken the accounts Irena made about her unprepossessing derring-do after hearing the existence of the Holocaust denied, Irena looks back on, and then re-experiences, the tense time she spen[...]