GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR by DOUG WRIGHT ... FINALIST

 

GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR 

by DOUG WRIGHT

ANNOUNCED AS FINALIST FOR

2023 STEINBERG–ATCA NEW PLAY AWARD

BROADWAY PREVIEWS STARRING SEAN HAYES

BEGIN APRIL 7 AT THE BELASCO THEATRE

 
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) today announced six finalists for the 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing the playwrights who produced the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2022.

 

Finalist Good Night, Oscar by Doug Wright, starring Sean Hayes, begins preview performances on Broadway on Friday, April 7 with the official opening set for Monday, April 24 at the Belasco Theatre.

 

The ACTA said the following in the announcement:

Good Night, Oscar by Doug Wright. Transcending the trappings of a traditional biographical play, this work explores addiction and mental illness through the perspective of mid-20th century pianist, actor and television personality Oscar Levant. A juror commented that the play explores how “we need our court jesters to reveal some essential truths … and suggests how Levant set the table for such transgressive and revelatory comedians as George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and others.” Premiered by Goodman Theatre (Chicago, IL). 

  

 

In Good Night, Oscar, Sean Hayes plays Oscar Levant: Hollywood actor, concert pianist, and the most subversive wit ever to appear on television during its Golden Age.

 

It’s 1958 and Jack Paar is hosting “The Tonight Show.” He’s booked his favorite guest, a pundit as hilarious as he is unpredictable: Oscar Levant, who once famously proclaimed, “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity, and I have erased that line.”  In 90 short minutes, Oscar will have audiences howling, censors scrambling, and - when it’s all over - America will be just a little less innocent than she was before.

 

Good Night, Oscar is produced on Broadway by Grove Entertainment, Barbara Whitman, Hazy Mills Productions, Yonge Street Theatricals, Frank Marshall, Rich Entertainment Group & Jeremiah J. Harris, Mary Lu Roffe, David Shapiro & Mark Losher, John H. Tyson, Patty Baker, Rodney Rigby, John Gore Organization, Kate Capshaw & Steven Spielberg, James L. Nederlander, Creative Partners Productions, Sharon Karmazin, The Forstalls, Jamie deRoy, David Barnett, Barbara Freitag, Universal Theatrical Group, and Leah Dagen & Jimmy Wilson.

The creative team for Good Night, Oscar includes Rachel Hauck (Set Design), Emilio Sosa (Costume Design), Carolina Ortiz Herrera and Ben Stanton (Lighting Design), André Pluess (Sound Design), Chris Fenwick (Music Supervision), J. Jared Janas (Wig, Hair and Make-Up Design), Stephen Kopel (Casting), and Jacqueline E. Lawton (Dramaturgy).  

 

Tickets are now on sale at www.Telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200. Tickets for groups of 10+ are on sale through Group Sales Box Office at Broadway.com at 1-800-BROADWAY (1 800 276 3929), extension 2.