Who is Oscar Levant? On myriad levels, this is the question both we and Doug Wright’s play, coming to London after a Tony Award-winning run on Broadway, need to ask. Levant, as a minor character here ...
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, as ...
Sean Hayes, best known as the bitchily bright-eyed Jack McFarland in sitcom Will and Grace, transforms himself here into Oscar Levant, the depressive, drug-addicted pianist, actor and wit who was a ...
I am on a journey of not only seeing shows that I have never seen before, but also ones that I have never heard of before. This is rare with someone with extensive theatre knowledge but such was the ...
After spending months in 2023 understudying the role of pianist, composer and raconteur Oscar Levant in Doug Wright’s “Good Night, Oscar” on Broadway, actor Max Roll finally is getting a chance to ...
Enter Sean Hayes’s Oscar, first heard kvetching outside the green room’s door, his funny-dial already turned up to 11. Those who have come to see over-the-top gay Jack from Will and Grace will ...
Emmy and Tony Award-winner Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) brings his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning performance to the Barbican this Summer in Good Night, Oscar – direct from a critically acclaimed Broadway ...
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in ...
Actor Max Roll may not look an awful lot like the real-life character he plays in Doug Wright’s “Good Night, Oscar” at Asolo Repertory Theatre, but he sure makes you believe he’s the real deal.