From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The new American play, Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes opens on Broadway tonight, April 24, at the Belasco Theatre. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright and dir…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The stars came out to celebrate last night at the Belasco Theatre, where the new American play, Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes opened. BroadwayWorld was there and you can ch…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Good Night, Oscar starring Emmy Award-winning actor Sean Hayes, opened on Broadway last night, Monday, April 24th at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th St) for a 20-week limite…

Musical favorites as well as regional and world premiere works are included in the Florida company's upcoming season.

Jonah, a new play by Rachel Bonds and directed by Danya Taymor, has set the dates for its off-Broadway world premiere. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will begin preview performances at the Laura Pels…

The Good Night, Oscar star is bringing his work to the Royal Family Performing Arts Space for a limited engagement.

The Good Night, Oscar star is bringing his work to the Royal Family Performing Arts Space for a limited engagement.

Nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include Peter Allen & the Rockettes, Oscar Levant, Kiss Me Kate and more. November 19, 2023: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller has unearthed four fabulous nostalgic f…

Good Night, Oscar, the Oscar Levant bio-play starring Sean Hayes, and El Mago Pop, the Broadway debut of Spanish illusionist Antonio Díaz, ended their limited Broadway engagements on upswings last week, with t…

Sean Hayes at Good Night, Oscar Stage Door #seanhayes #smartless #willandgrace

Tony Award Winner Sean Hayes gives a speech after the closing performance of Good Night, Oscar on Broadway. Filmed & edited by @bwaySHO #SeanHayes

Hayes won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Oscar Levant.

For the week ending Aug. 20, the 26 currently running productions grossed $25,806,601.

There were 26 Broadway productions on the boards during the week ending August 20.

Disney's long-running The Lion King again tops the list, taking in over $2 million at the Minskoff.

Several shows saw their highest-grossing weeks yet as 257,204 people saw a Broadway show last week.

Twenty-four productions posted gross increases.

Three Broadway plays are closing next Sunday, July 2: Fat HamPrima FacieThe Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window  – and four more Broadway shows are closing during the summer: Life of Pi and Peter Pan Goes Wro…

Check out photos of Debra Messing visiting Will & Grace co-star Sean Hayes at Good Night, Oscar on Broadway!

Costume designer (and Project Runway alum) Emilio Sosa designed a staggering five shows this Broadway season. But he didn’t start out wanting to do costume design, he wanted to work in fashion. For this entry…

As part of her BTC fellowship, Arrington-Steward spent the season working as a manager on Good Night, Oscar and Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth.

The Will & Grace star won the 2023 Tony for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play.

“I’d like to acknowledge Oscar Levant, whose wit and irascibility and virtuosity is not only inspirational but a true original,” Hayes said in his acceptance speech.

Just last night at the 76th Annual Tony Awards, Sean Hayes took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play' for his outstanding work on Good Night, Oscar (currently runnin…

Sean Hayes has won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR. Hear what he had to say about his win in his visit to the press room!

Hayes earned the honor for his performance in Good Night, Oscar.

From portraying a trailblazing talk show guest to a Tony Award winner! Sean Hayes has won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his stupendous performance as Oscar Leva…

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

Sean Hayes plays piano at #Ham4Ham. You can see him on the keys in Good Night, Oscar 8 x a week! Full Ham4Ham right here on @bwaySHO Filmed & edited by @bwaySHO #SeanHayes #goodnight #Oscar

Broadway box office overall held steady last week, even as the recent Tony Award nominations already seemed to lose some of their power to boost ticket sales. Some shows with nominations saw declines at the box…

Sean Hayes stars as the irrepressible Oscar Levant in the new play, Good Night, Oscar. It’s 1958, and late-night talk-show host Jack Paar’s favorite guest is character actor, pianist, and wild card Oscar Le…

He wanted to make sure his character didn’t fall into familiar racial tropes.

Lea Salonga presents Sean Hayes with his Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play (Good Night, Oscar.) In a joke-filled four-minute acceptance speech, Hayes recounts how he h…

Every year since Broadway.com launched in 2000, we have asked you to pick your favorites of the season in the annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. The results are in, and Into the Woods topped the Broa…

Sean Hayes sat down on CBS Mornings to discuss starring on Broadway in Good Night, Oscar. Hayes revealed how starring as Oscar Levant in the new play is 'almost therapeutic' to him. Hayes also discussed why t…

“It’s rare that lightning in a bottle happens, but it did with this show. It’s wild,” exclaims Sean Hayes of “Good Night, Oscar.” The actor received a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of raco…

In this video, watch as Sean Hayes chats about how he got started in theatre, why this role means so much to him, and so much more.

Joshua Satine in Leopoldstadt. Photo: Joan Marcus The cast of Some Like it Hot. Photo: Marc J. Franklin The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-…

Good Night, Oscar starring Emmy Award-winning actor Sean Hayes, is running now at  Broadway's Belasco Theatre. In celebration of the actor's acclaimed turn as Oscar Levant in the new play from Doug Wright, Sea…

I watched Oscar Levant on tv–primarily on the Jack Paar Show where he was an almost permanent guest, so popular  were his many visits. Paar himself loved to chat with him about the most ordinary happening…

Sean Hayes, up till now best known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Jack McFarland on "Will and Grace," gives a titanic performance as humorist, raconteur and pianist Oscar Levant once called the witti…

Perhaps last week’s Tony Award nominations started paying off at the box office quicker than expected, at least for a few productions: Figures for last week, while down overall, indicate a nice bump upwards f…

Be on the lookout for The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater news program, on your local TV station. Featured this week: - Road to the Tony Awards! Learn all about this year’s exc…

Before The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, we're offering a first look at the episode. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this episode will air in New York City on May 6 at 7:30PM ET …

Check out photos of Barry Manilow visiting Good Night, Oscar on Broadway!

By: Paulanne Simmons May 1, 2023: From 1957 to 1962, Jack Parr reigned over late night television from Studio 6B in Rockefeller Plaza. The show was known for the wide range of Paar’s guests, from intellect…

By: David Sheward May 1, 2023: The 2022-23 Broadway season ends with a trio of productions featuring dazzling star-level performances. Sean Hayes delivers one of the most powerful and versatile turns in a st…

A multi-hyphenate of the 20th century, long before the term existed, Pittsburgh-born, NYC-trained, and Hollywood-based actor and comedian, concert pianist and composer, TV talk show host and frequent guest Osca…

By: Isa Goldberg April 30, 2023: Sean Hayes, in a ghost-like form of himself, unrecognizable even, has arrived, turning on the lights of Broadway. It’s a shocking star turn for the sit com actor, Ha…

On April 28, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced eligibility rulings for 11 productions in the 2022-2023 Broadway season. This follows the first and second announcements on eligibility determ…

Sometimes performers are so good at their roles that they become forever identified with that part. For many, Sean Hayes will always be Jack on television’s “Will and Grace,” kooky, egocentric, and outrag…

Hayes returns to Broadway in an exquisite, touching, and formidable portrait of the twentieth century pianist Oscar Levant. The post Sean Hayes Blazes in ‘Good Night, Oscar’ on Broadway appeared first on Th…

Marchánt Davis can’t seem to keep away from the Belasco Theatre. He starred in Jordan E. Cooper’s “Ain’t No Mo’” at the 44th street haunt in December, and now just a few months later he is featured…

Broadway musical New York, New York leads the pack with twelve nominations, followed by Some Like It Hot with ten nods. Downstate and Leopoldstadt lead the plays, with six nominations each. Distinguished fight…

Good Night, Oscar starring Emmy Award-winning actor Sean Hayes, opened on Broadway last night, Monday, April 24th at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th St) for a 20-week limited engagement. See video of Sea…

Starry isn't a starry enough word for the Good Night, Oscar Opening Night starring Sean Hayes!

The stars came out to celebrate last night at the Belasco Theatre, where the new American play, Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes opened. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out interviews with Graham…

The celebrities were out for the opening night of the new bio-play starring Sean Hayes.

See photos of Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, and more on the red carpet of Good Night, Oscar opening night!

Sean Hayes is entertaining without pause in his sensational portrayal of Oscar Levant in one of the few Broadway shows that unimpeachably deserves its tumultuous standing ovation.

The new American play, Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes opened on Broadway last night, April 24, at the Belasco Theatre. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos from the opening night part…

The new American play, Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes opened on Broadway last night, April 24, at the Belasco Theatre. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos of the cast taking their bo…

‘Good Night, Oscar’ Reviews; Michele, Frost to Announce Tony Noms, NPH Extends At ‘Peter Pan’ “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the …

Top stories: Read all of the reviews for Good Night, Oscar, plus check out an exclusive video message from @StephanieJBlock in honor of BroadwayWorld's 20th anniversary!

Entering the Broadway production of “Good Night, Oscar,” I knew nothing about playwright Doug Wright’s titular figure, Oscar Levant, but I left caring for the crotchety old man as if he were my own family…

Today’s audiences are unlikely to know the name Oscar Levant, the once-famed pianist, composer, comedian and actor at the center of Doug Wright’s new Broadway play “Good Night, Oscar.” Despite that, man…

The “Will & Grace” star is unrecognizable in a Broadway biography of Oscar Levant: wit, pianist and “Eeyore in a cheap suit.”

Directed by Lisa Peterson, the limited engagement will play the Belasco Theatre through the summer.

When Sean Hayes as the concert pianist and celebrated wit Oscar Levant sits down at the piano to play “Rhapsody in Blue,” I thought at first that it was a recording and he was simulating the recital. But no…

The new American play, Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes opens on Broadway tonight, April 24, at the Belasco Theatre. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright and directed by Lisa Peterson, Good Night, …

Sean Hayes takes on the role of Oscar Levant, the virtuoso piano player, in this mostly unsatisfying dramedy.

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 …

Good Night, Oscar is now playing at the Belasco Theatre.

In 1958, the brilliant pianist and humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar.

★★★★★ The Will & Grace star portrays real life comedian and musical virtuoso Oscar Levant, in a role Hayes was born to play. The post Good Night, Oscar: Sean Hayes Displays Dual Talents in Masterf…

★★★☆☆ Doug Wright's caustic slice-of-life play, Lisa Peterson directing The post Good Night, Oscar: Sean Hayes Is the Famed Ivories-Tickler appeared first on New York Stage Review.

Such is the magic of “Good Night, Oscar” and, specifically, actor Sean Hayes’ virtuosic turn as the accomplished Jewish pianist and talk show personality riddled with various mental illnesses.

Get to know the cast and creative team of Good Night, Oscar on Broadway Filmed by John Benson & @bwaySHO Edited by Avery Ingvarson & @bwaySHO

A look at the man behind Broadway's latest bio-play, who was also a good friend to George Gershwin.