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 ...

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 ...

Hot on the heels of hit Broadway play Stereophonic, there’s another evocative recording studio period piece in town. But where Stereophonic is an epic, following a Seventies-era band gradually ...

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 ...

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.

THE MEMOIRS OF AN AMNESIAC by Oscar Levant. 320 pages. Putnam. $5.95. Oscar Levant’s public image, if he still has one, is a blend of an exhibitionistic hypochondriac, an acerb wit, and a concert ...