NEW YORK (JTA) — Film critic Judith Crist, a one-time mainstay of the “Today” show and TV Guide, has died at 90. Crist died Tuesday in Manhattan following a long illness, according to reports.. She was born Judith Klein to...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Marvin Hamlisch, the acclaimed composer and arranger of dozens of Broadway plays and films, has died at 68. Hamlisch died Monday in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He perhaps was best known for his work on the...
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...
