It’s that last aspect of Levant’s legacy that is the focus of playwright Doug Wright’s excellent “Good Night, Oscar,” featuring a Tony-winning performance by Sean Hayes as Levant and an equally ...

Rosalie Craig will be joining Will & Grace's Sean Hayes in the Tony Award-winning play now showing at The Barbican.

Sean Hayes is best known to audiences from the sitcom Will and Grace, but now he’s taking on a much darker role onstage at ...

Oscar Levant (Sean Hayes, right) is haunted by the memory of George Gershwin (John Zdrojeski) in Doug Wright's play "Good Night, Oscar," running through April 24 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

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 ...

American pianist Oscar Levant (1906–1972), whose fortieth Yahrzeit was on August 14, was renowned, perhaps distractingly so, for his wit steeped in psychic pain.

Sean Hayes, right, plays pianist/composer/raconteur Oscar Levant and Ben Rappaport plays 1950s/1960s late-night TV host Jack Parr in Goodman Theatre's world premiere of “Good Night, Oscar” by ...

Oscar Levant (Sean Hayes, right) is haunted by the memory of George Gershwin (John Zdrojeski) in Doug Wright's play "Good Night, Oscar," running through April 24 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

Oscar Levant in the 1940s. That sentiment applies to the boxed set, as well, for it takes Levant outside the confines of Gershwin’s repertoire and larger-than-life persona.

Oscar Levant (Sean Hayes, right) is haunted by the memory of George Gershwin (John Zdrojeski) in Doug Wright’s play “Good Night, Oscar,” running through April 24 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

Oscar Levant was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian, and actor. He was known for his performances in the films ...

Wrote Adjmi, “As Oscar Levant is in the public domain, anyone can write a play about him. Though I found this gesture of Sean’s kind of unsavory, to be honest I would have been happy to just ...