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, ...

The actors reunite after co-starring in the Tony Award-winning 2023 Broadway premiere of Doug Wright's play about pianist and ...

There are probably, unfortunately, many younger people who don’t know who Oscar Levant was ... especially from a prowling, ghostly Gershwin (Harris Milgrim). The production’s supporting ...

“Character” may be a loaded word for the person Roll is playing – concert pianist, composer, occasional film actor and witty storyteller Oscar ... death. Levant idolized Gershwin and felt ...

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 ...

Last night, the Philadelphia Orchestra played the Symphony No. 6 in A minor of Gustav Mahler. The venue: Carnegie Hall. The ...

In the mid-20th century, Oscar Levant was famed as a multitalented ... pianist in “An American in Paris” (1951) who performed Gershwin’s Concerto in F in that movie. Levant’s fame was ...

Oscar (to steal a phrase from his wife) looks like "Eeyore in a cheap suit." Nicely done. Levant’s fiercest demon was his own self-loathing. The Ghost of Gershwin Past gives it visible and ...

He became friends and tennis partners with George Gershwin. Although he never wrote for the films, some of my grandfather’s students, such as Alfred Newman, David Raksin and Oscar Levant ...

I want to use the piano as a stepping stone! George Gershwin: I see you've learned to play with both hands. Oscar Levant: I took the liberty of recording our rhapsody. George Gershwin: Maybe way down ...