Tag: Broadway

RIP, Sheila Guyse

Actor and singer Sheila Guyse has died. Guyse appeared on Broadway, most notably in “Finian’s Rainbow” and in “race films” with all-African-American casts catering to African-American audiences in the 1940s and 1950s. The New York Times has an obituary. Nina Mae McKinney has a tribute to Guyse. Here […]

RIP, Julie Harris

Actress Julie Harris has died. The Los Angeles Times remembers her.  The Hollywood Reporter has an obituary. She appeared in countless film, television and stage roles. Here she is as Eleanor in The Haunting (1963) and as Betty in Harper (1966).

RIP, James Gandolfini

Actor James Gandolfini has died. Gandolifini was probably best known as Tony Soprano in the tv series The Sopranos, but he performed on Broadway, was nominated for a Tony Award in The God of Carnage, and performed in films like True Romance, Get Shorty, The Mexican, The Man […]

“Jersey Shore Gone Wilde”

Characters from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest perform transcripts from The Jersey Shore,  showing an amazing continuity in dandyism society life in-fighting and the importance of trivial comedy for serious people from Wilde’s time to today. (Thanks, Mark!)