NEW YORK — Oscar Levant, one of the great interpreters of George Gershwin’s music, was as renowned for his rueful wit as he was for his virtuosic piano skills. His wisecracks made him a ...

Sean Hayes plays Oscar Levant in "Good Night, Oscar" on Broadway. Joan Marcus That Sean Hayes transforms in the new play “Good Night, Oscar,” there is no doubt. Whether the end result is a ...

This is how Hayes alters himself to play Oscar Levant, the pianist and raconteur, in the new Broadway play “Good Night, Oscar,” which opens on April 24 at the Belasco Theater. Levant ...

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We can see a throughline from Oscar Levant to the public figures today who cancel tours because of the mental toll, open up about sobriety or psychiatric treatment, or make statements against the ...

"He said he didn't want to play Oscar Levant onstage in no uncertain terms, he did not want to do that," Adjmi stated. "He didn't want to do a period piece, so that was out." In Adjmi's narrative ...

Based on a turbulent few hours in the life of Oscar Levant, “Good Night, Oscar” opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre after its world premiere last year at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

In November 1958, the brilliant composer, concert pianist and outré humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar in front of ...

The first act plods through this foundational exposition, gaining some traction with the arrival of June Levant (Leslie Castay), Oscar’s loving put-upon wife who vouches for him and assures the ...

There are probably, unfortunately, many younger people who don’t know who Oscar Levant was. But for the Asolo Rep audience, chances are a good number recall the musician, raconteur and pianist ...

“Character” may be a loaded word for the person Roll is playing – concert pianist, composer, occasional film actor and witty storyteller Oscar Levant, who gained a different level of ...

Anyway, win or lose, my enthusiasm for this lovable lunatic as the incarnation of the late, great Oscar Levant is boundless. Personally, I have seen nothing on the New York stage this season to ...