Known for its homegrown musical revues and performances of plays celebrating African-American stories, Westcoast Black ...

In the mid-20th century, Oscar Levant was famed as a multitalented ... His fiction includes sketch comedy, short stories and screenplays. “Cosmic Debris,” his latest anthology of short ...

The team's new show The Comedy About Spies is currently playing at the Noel ... 2023 Broadway premiere of Doug Wright's play about pianist and TV personality Oscar Levant. Fleur East, who rose to fame ...

They are a couple of the finest roles of their careers. Oscar Levant (who also played all his own music) also delivered an excellent starring role, and provided great comedy relief. Joan Chandler, J.

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 ...

Penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright and directed by Lisa Peterson, the piece is set in 1958 and revolves around a notorious late-night talkshow appearance. Joining Hayes will be Ben Rappaport, ...

Michael Feinstein got his break in show business when the widow of Oscar Levant, the composer and actor, introduced him to Ira Gershwin, who hired Feinstein to catalog his collection of phonograph ...

Georgia amidst the backdrop of late-imperial Russia—the composer's only Piano Concerto became an unlikely hit in Cold War America thanks to virtuosi such as William Kapell and Oscar Levant.