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Stewart F. Lane and the cast of If It Was Easy
at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
From Playbill On-Line, March 11, 1999
Stewart Lane and Ward Morehouse III Team on New Play, If It Was Easy
What happens when you put a Tony-winning producer and a former theatre
columnist together? Believe it or not, you get a comedy about producing on
Broadway. Or so it seems with Stewart F. Lane, the producer of such shows as 1776
and La Cage aux Folles, and Ward Morehouse III, until recently the
theatre reporter for the New York Post. The unlikely duo has teamed up to pen
the new comedy, If It Was Easy...
Lane described the work as being in the tradition of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur classics The Front Page and The Twentieth Century.
"I'm talking to a few theatre companies about a production out of town," said Lane, who added that he'd know more details in the near future.
Lane is the head of a producing group called the Producers Network, which is examining the possibility of sponsoring a season of low-budget Off Broadway musicals during the 1999-2000 season.
Morehouse was the Post's regular theatre reporter and theatre columnist for five years. His tenure ended last fall, when he was replaced by The Daily News' Michael Riedel.
--By Robert Simonson
From the New York Post, April 9, 1999
Critic Makes His Play
BROADWAY producer and theater owner Stewart Lane has just finished writing his first full-length play, "If It Was Easy,'' co-authored by former Post theater writer Ward Morehouse III. It's about (what else?) the cozy relationship between a Broadway
producer and a journalist who covers the Great White Way for a New York tabloid.
Lane says it's mostly action, but admits some parts are true. ''Since the days of Walter
Winchell and Ed Sullivan, columnists and producers have been Strange bedfellows handcuffed, together,'' he says.
The Berkshire Theater festival is developing the play and the first staged reading comes in July.
--By Neal Trav
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