After spending months in 2023 understudying the role of pianist, composer and raconteur Oscar ... to “The Tonight Show” because of audience familiarity with the show on which Levant was ...

“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 ...

The production’s supporting actors all have their moments in the spotlight, but Roll as Oscar remains the center of the show, even before he actually enters the stage in typical rumpled Levant ...

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 play unfolds in 1958. It’s the night Oscar Levant (Max Roll) appears on "The Tonight Show" with Jack Paar (Sasha Andreev). That takes some doing. Levant’s been committed to a psychiatric ...

Sean Hayes and Ben Rappaport will reprise their acclaimed Broadway performances in Good Night, Oscar at the Barbican Theatre this summer, joined by a newly announced cast for the play’s West End ...

“Good Night, Oscar” revolves around a pivotal night in 1958. Levant, fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, was a guest on “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar. In his nationally televised ...

Your favorite Giggly Squad podcast co-hosts Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner will be making their Tonight Show debut this evening ... carpet for Vanity Fair’s Oscar after-party last month.

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 ...

The couple also made a stylish appearance at the 2025 Oscars in March ... though Blanco later commented on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that Gomez deserved “a medal of honor ...

The Oscar Levant Show' was transmitted weekly by station KCOP in Los Angeles, with a live studio audience. The live audience were a key factor, because Oscar Levant had a reputation for extremely ...