By Nellie Andreeva
14.04.2020 - 02:25 / variety.com
By Klaritza Rico
Loring Mandel, a playwright and screenwriter who won two primetime Emmys for his work, died on March 24. He was 91.
Mandel died of cancer at his home in Lenox, Mass., his son Alan Mandel told Variety.
The Chicago native, who was born May 5, 1928, went on to earn a total of five Emmy nominations throughout his career, winning two. He won his first primetime Emmy in 1968 for his work on “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night“ on “CBS Playhouse” and in 2001 for the telefilm
By Nellie Andreeva
By Jonathan Cohen
Shirley Knight, a Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actress, has died. She was 83. Knight died on Wednesday of natural causes at her daughter's home in San Marcos, Texas, according to her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins, who confirmed the news on Facebook.
By Jake Kanter
Following on from this weekend’s stream of The Phantom Of The Opera, The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel will premiere the musical’s follow-up, Love Never Dies from this Friday evening. This will be the 2012 version starring Ben Lewis and Anna O’Byrne.
Roger Beatty, who won five Emmy Awards for his work as a writer onThe Carol Burnett Show, died April 6 at his home in Palm Desert, California, of prostate cancer, his family announced. He was 87.
Gene Deitch, an American Oscar-winning illustrator, animator, film director and producer has died. He was 95.
By Anita Bennett
By Bruce Haring
Lee Konitz, the celebrated jazz saxophonist and last surviving performer on Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool sessions, has died. He was 92.
Lee Konitz, the celebrated jazz saxophonist and last surviving performer in Miles Davis’ “Birth of the Cool” sessions, died Wednesday (April 15) due to complications with COVID-19. He was 92.
By Dino-Ray Ramos
By Mackenzie Nichols
Larry Sherman, the founder of influential Chicago-based house label Trax, has died of heart failure.A statement released by the label Thursday announced: "It is with great sadness that TRAX Records and Rachael Cain inform the world of the passing of our founder Larry Sherman he was Jewish and passed away yesterday on his holiday Passover of heart failure." Read the complete statement below.Sherman founded Trax in 1984, as Chicago was becoming the world nexus of the then-burgeoning house music
Larry Sherman, recording engineer and founder of the seminal Chicago house label Trax Records, has died. The label announced the news in a statement on its official Facebook page earlier today (April 9).
LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago’s folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 73.