Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Oscar Levant was a musical virtuoso, more famous for playing his friend ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The narrative takes us through Levant's tumultuous existence as a pianist, ...

American Scholar magazine gushed: “Among the pop culture stars of the mid-20th century, few were as diversely talented as the inimitable Oscar Levant. Urbane and self-lacerating, Levant cultivated a ...

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 ...

Magic touch: Oscar Levant in the 1940 film Rhythm on the River - Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo “There is a fine line between genius and insanity, I have erased that line,” said Oscar ...

His affairs are a mess: mentally ill, addicted to a slew of pills, on the outs with wife June and quickly acquiring a reputation for no-showing the promoters who book him. Can he hold it together for ...

His hands noodle out a few bars from Gershwin’s Concerto in F; then the man in the crumpled suit says: “This is Oscar Levant speaking. It’s an identification that I have to make because I suffer from ...

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 ...

London's Barbican Theatre will host a limited seven-week run of Hayes' play this summer, with the 'Will & Grace' star "eager to introduce one of the all-time greats, Oscar Levant, to the U.K." By Lily ...