Ward Morehouse III

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Broadway After Dark and Beyond

   Broadway After Dark and Beyond home page
    By Ward Morehouse III, TimesSquare.com

   Spring Cleaning with Morehouse
    By Ward Morehouse III, TimesSquare.com

Broadway After Dark

   Broadway After Dark - November 9, 2006
    By Ward Morehouse III, Special to The Epoch Times

   Broadway After Dark - July 31, 2006
    By Ward Morehouse III, Special to The Epoch Times

   Broadway After Dark - January 27, 2006
    By Ward Morehouse III, Special to The Epoch Times

   Broadway After Dark - Weekend, January 6-8, 2006
    By Ward Morehouse III, Special to amNewYork

   Broadway After Dark - Weekend, November 11-13, 2005
    By Ward Morehouse III, Special to amNewYork

Katharine Hepburn

   Kate Hepburn: 'Tell everybody I'm doing fine' (PDF; 1.3Mb)
    By Ward Morehouse III and Bill Hoffmann, New York Post, Friday, March 10, 2000

   Hepburn to shun spotlight onm her 90th b'day (PDF; 1.1Mb)
    By Ward Morehouse III, New York Post, Sunday, May 11, 1997

   She's A-O-Kate (PDF; 1.0Mb)
    By Ward Morehouse III, New York Post, Thursday, July 20, 1995

The Christian Science Monitor

'Psst! Wanna buy a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge?' By Ward Morehouse III, Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, New York
So you've always wanted to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? Well, here's your chance -- at least to buy a part of it. No, this isn't a reprise of the hoary tale of the naive newcomer buying the famous suspencion bridge from a "con artist." All the details are contained in a glossy, colorful new booklet just published by the city's Office of Real Estate Development and entitled "How New York City is selling the Brooklyn Bridge. . . ." More...

Despite closings, N.Y. theater bounces back By Ward Morehouse III, Special to The Christian Science Monitor, NEW YORK
Broadway and off-Broadway theaters are settling back into business as usual - and business as unusual - after struggling through one of the biggest box-office drops in history because of the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. Daily Variety reported Tuesday that after Broadway resumed its eight-performance schedule last week, it earned $4.3 million, up from the previous week's $3.6 million - a 118 percent increase. More...

New York's next governor -- a millionaire . . . or a Shakespeare buff? By Ward Morehouse III, Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, White Plains, N.Y.
It had already been a good day for New York State Lt. Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor, and it was barely noon. Mr. Cuomo had breezed through an interview with William O'Shaughnessy, president of WVOX, a New Rochelle, N.Y., radio station, and the man who heads "Republicans for Cuomo." More...

Dusting off the musicals By Ward Morehouse III, Special to The Christian Science Monitor, East Haddam, Conn.
It's been called the mecca of musical theater, and it's one of the few places in the United States that's devoted to America's popular theater form. Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House is at the forefront of reviving classic musicals and providing a showcase for new ones. More...

Singer recalls a 'White Christmas' past By Ward Morehouse III, Special to The Christian Science Monitor, NEW YORK
When Rosemary Clooney sang seasonal standards like "Let It Snow" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas" in her recent show at Feinstein's at the Regency Hotel here, it brought back happy memories of her in the classic 1954 movie "White Christmas." But her flawless rendition of the more sentimental "Count Your Blessings," which she sang with costar Bing Crosby in the film, is the heart and soul of her Christmas show (to be repeated in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles later this month) and her amazing career. More...

Alberta Hunter's songs -- just like it used to be By Ward Morehouse III, The Christian Science Monitor (March 3, 1978)
"I spend my days rejoicing because of the love I have for you." This lyric epitomizes what New Yorkers think of one of the world's great jazz and gospel singers, Alberta Hunter, who, at 82, is making a big comeback here. More...

Can the Old Shelburne survive amid casinos? By Ward Morehouse III, The Christian Science Monitor (September 21, 1977)
The grand hotel of Atlantic City's gilded age is still open to wayfarers -- for the present. Perched atop the grand old Hotel Shelburne here, the 11-room "George M. Cohan Suite" is one of the last remnants of America's gilded age of hotels. For less than $50 a night, you can stay in one of the suite's seven bedrooms -- where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor once slept. And for $750 you can have the entire floor all to yourself. But you'd better hurry: Both the suite and the hotel face an uncertain future as casino gambling prepares to make its debut. More...

"The Lion King" to Hit Broadway By Ward Morehouse III, New York Post (July 21, 1994)
"The Lion King" may roar into Broadway. With one eye on the phenomenal Broadway success of "Beauty and the Beast" and the other on the more than $157 million "The Lion King" has grossed in movie houses, top Disney officials are seriously considering moving Simba and friends to the Great White Way. "We'd love to do a stage version, since it's been so well received as a movie," said Robert McTyre, vice president of Walt Disney Productions. More...

L.A. Quake Rocks New York-Based Actors' Fund
Reuters (05/04/94)
Morehouse III, Ward
Southern California's January 17 earthquake is placing an unanticipated strain on the New York City-based Actors' Fund of America, which could threaten the organization's annual AIDS initiatives. As of 1992, 322 clients of the fund had died from AIDS. HIV-positive clients receive assistance in the form of regular home and hospital visits, plus money to defray the costs of food, lodging, and medical needs. The Actors' Fund of America prides itself on putting absolutely no limits on providing aid to theater and other entertainment professionals who find themselves in crisis situations. However, nearly four months after the California quake, the organization still "is getting deluged by requests from help from victims of the earthquake," according to Tom Dillon, president of the Actors' Fund of America. General Manager Joe Benincase also expressed concern. "We think we are going to go over our budget because of the earthquake," he said.

From America's favorite playwright, Neil Simon, Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a "screamingly funny" (Philadelphia Inquirer) Broadway hit about a team of comedy writers in television's Golden Age.

can chase after the Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best audience.

Broadway's funniest playwright writing about a team of comedy writers? It's no wonder Laughter on the 23rd Floor is "the funniest comedy on Broadway in years" (Variety).

Here's what critics say:

"Uproarious! Neil Simon's show of shows!" -- Gene Shalit, Today, NBC-TV;
"Unbridled hilarity, fast and furious." -- Edwin Wilson, The Wall Street Journal;
"Howlingly funny." -- Howard Kissel, New York Daily News;
"A laugh-riot. Neil Simon's funniest since The Odd Couple." -- Ward Morehouse III, Reuters