United Jewish Federation of Tidewater & Simon Family JCC's Lee & Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival 2024

For over 40 years, this annual celebration of Jewish writers, books, and ideas has featured authors from various backgrounds who have written about diverse topics. Featured author events allow the community to engage with bestselling and up-and-coming writers.

Schedule of Events

7:30PM - 9:30pm: Eddie Shapiro: Jewish Book Festival

Join theater journalist Eddie Shapiro for a Cabaret-style evening of songs and stories celebrating the lives of some of the most remarkable women of Broadway and the songs they brought to life!

In Here's to the Ladies, the follow-up to his first book, Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, theatre journalist Eddie Shapiro sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with yet more of Broadway's most prolific and fascinating leading women.

Full of detailed stories and reflections, his conversations with luminaries such as Barbara Cook, Kelli O'Hara, Heather Headley, Faith Prince, Stephanie J. Block, Tonya Pinkins, and a host of others dig deep into each actor's career. Together, these chapters tell the story of what it means to be a leading lady on Broadway over the past fifty years.

Eddie Shapiro is the author of "Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater," "A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater," and hundreds of magazine articles with much shorter and more sensible titles than his books.