By Beatrice Williams-Rude in BlackTie Magazine The Plaza: Where one can gaze at the stars over Central Park, or those in the lobby Whether for vacation, delectation or arm chair fantasizing, “Inside...
By Beatrice Williams-Rude in BlackTie Magazine The Plaza: Where one can gaze at the stars over Central Park, or those in the lobby Whether for vacation, delectation or arm chair fantasizing, “Inside...
One thing I learned in writing my book Life at the Top: Inside London’s Grand Hotels (companion volume to Life at the Top: Inside New York’s Grand Hotels) is that hotels some people wouldn’t consider...
In Grand Central Station parts I and II, our Checking In columnist Ward Morehouse III told us about the history of what has been affectionately called “America’s Civic Cathedral” and its fine...
Reviewed by Tom Gates for the Travel Smart Newsletter The book’s subtitle explains it all – “New York’s Landmark Theatre From Broadway’s Beginnings To Live Television, Jack Paar, and Elvis.”...
Getting on Broadway is an achievement, whether or not you get nominated for its highest honor, an American Theatre Wing Tony. Being there is a milestone in itself. Take it from Gerald R. Schoenfeld, Chairman...
Written by Ward Morehouse. William Gillette was a gallant figure in the American theater, a brilliant worker as an actor, playwright and director for more than four decades. A New Englander of culture,...
Eartha Kitt, one of the greatest nightclub entertainers our time, may be back on Broadway in the musical version of Thornton Wilder’s classic comedy “Skin of Our Teeth,” with music and lyrics...
NEW YORK — The National Actors Theater revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 kaleidoscopic allegorical drama, “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” is a triumph of inspired stagecraft and acting....
The late actress Lilia Skala used to joke that “I collect nominations!” But her career and life were an inspiration to many who fled Nazi Germany and to her actress granddaughter. The Oscar...