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 ...

Journey back in time with us to 1958 as we walk the line between the fantasy and reality of one infamous night of television in Good Night, Oscar at Le Petit Theatre. Oscar Levant was a musical ...

In order to understand the life of Oscar Levant, you have to get past the legacy of George Gershwin. Levant was a composer, pianist and author, also a talk show host and legendary quipster. He was ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

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 ...

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 favorite of television ...

If ever a play had good reason to front-load itself with exposition, Good Night, Oscar is it. Once among America’s premiere wits and raconteurs, Oscar Levant has gone the way of many another ...

The playwright S.N. Behrman once famously described Oscar Levant as “a character who, if he did not exist, could not be imagined.” Perhaps the aspect of Levant that was most difficult to imagine was ...

It must have been something like this in the theater when Victorien Sardou wrote popular potboilers like “Fedora” and “La Tosca” for Sarah Bernhardt. The Divine Sarah and her scribe are long gone, but ...

Any fan of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will feel familiar with Paar and generally at home in this world. In some ways, “Good Night, Oscar” even feels like an episode of “Mrs. Maisel” — zany, ...

Sean Hayes will return to Broadway this spring starring in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright’s new play Good Night, Oscar, in which Hayes will play Hollywood Golden Age actor, pianist and ...

Sean Hayes stars as pianist Oscar Levant in "Good Night, Oscar" on Broadway (Photo by Joan Marcus) It must have been something like this in the theater when Victorien Sardou wrote popular potboilers ...