It was only three and a half years ago that Randy Cheramie tackled the role of Tevye the milkman in the Jefferson Performing Arts Center’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” The beloved Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock musical has...
Renowned soprano Sarah Jane McMahon, a New Orleans native and Loyola University School of Music graduate, returns to Touro Synagogue this Friday night in another program of works by Jewish composers. McMahon, who has sung with and been a protege...
Playmakers Theater’s upcoming performance of “The Jungle Book” next Saturday, July 21, will benefit the Northshore Jewish Congregation. The production begins at 1:00 p.m. at the Greater Covington Center, Furhmann Auditorium, 317 Jefferson Street, Covington, LA. It will be directed...
(JTA) — Dutch Jewish author Berthe Meijer, who grew up in Anne Frank’s neighborhood and was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen at the same time, has died. Meijer died Tuesday of cancer, The Associated Press reported.
(JTA) — Jewish-American author Nathan Englander won the 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The award, for his short story collection “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” garnered Englander a $30,000 prize. The collection...
(L.A. Jewish Journal) — Aaron Sorkin, the playwright, television writer and Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Social Network,” is causing a stir with his new HBO series, “The Newsroom,” about the inside antics of a cable news show and its commentary...
Nora Ephron, the celebrated novelist and essayist who had a successful film writing career veer into a career as a director, died Tuesday night in Manhattan. Her death was officially attributed to pneumonia, but it was revealed she had been...
Richard Adler, who along with his partner Jerry Ross, was responsible for two of the biggest hits of mid-1950s Broadway, “The Pajama Game” and “Damn Yankees,” died at his Southampton, New York home on Friday. He was 90. Tragically, Ross died...
Justin Robinson Smith, a mixed-media artist, whose “Guitar Hero” paintings are currently being shown at the Second Story Gallery of the New Orleans Healing Center, is preparing for a new show that will focus entirely on his unusual artistic work.
