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The "Will & Grace" star is now on Broadway as Oscar Levant, the witty and eccentric musical celebrity whose mental health struggles and addictions come front-and-center during a 1958 appearance on Jack Paar's "The Tonight Show."

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In Suzie Miller's 'Prima Facie," Jodie Comer brings to Broadway her acclaimed West End performance as a successful criminal defense barrister who experiences the other side of the legal system after being raped.

Martin Scorsese's 1977 film has been turned into a shlocky Broadway musical despite a Kander and Ebb score and additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Rex Reed says Hayes is a miracle — both comic and musical — in his portrayal of Oscar Levant.

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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 once-famous wits and raconteurs. Which is to say, he needs lots of exposition.

In Doug Wright’s mostly unsatisfying dramedy, which opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre, Sean Hayes takes on the role of Oscar Levant, the virtuoso piano player and humorist who became popular — and controversial — during the early days of TV. 

Hayes gives a spectacularly intense and unstinting performance, a Broadway tour-de-force wherein the honest work bespeaks of a beautiful homage to this phenomenally talented real-life character,

The play by Doug Wright offers a full portrait for late-night wit Oscar Levant, anchored by a virtuoso performance by Hayes.