Mae West: Broadway After Dark

MAE WEST sashayed through the debut column of "Broadway After Dark." How exciting to be featured!
• • Broadway After Dark
• • By Ward Morehouse III
• • February 6, 2008

• • It's 82 years since my father, Ward Morehouse, started writing his "Broadway After Dark" column for the old New York Sun. He continued it for The World-Telegram & Sun, Newhouse Newspapers and North American Newspaper Alliance. Although I used "On and Off-Broadway" for my theater column in The New York Post, I used "Broadway After Dark" when I was a columnist with the new New York Sun, amNewYork and Epoch Times. This is the first Broadway After Dark column for the website BroadwayAfterDark.com

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• • This summer MAE WEST will get an extra special birthday gift: a spotlight. Director Louis Lopardi is getting ready to announce a casting call for the next MAE WEST. Can anyone fill the shoes of the Brooklyn bombshell? In preparation for a July production of the serious-minded comedy "COURTING MAE WEST" by LindaAnn Loschiavo, Lopardi will workshop the play next month in New York City.
• • "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets" (based on true events when Mae West was arrested and jailed for trying to stage two gay plays on Broadway) will be presented at The Algonquin Theatre during July 2008 as part of The Annual Fresh Fruit Festival.
According to Artistic Director Carol Polcovar, The Annual Fresh Fruit Festival encompasses theater, performance, poetry, comedy, spoken word, music, dance, visual arts and some talents that defy categorization. Artists come from around the city, nation and, indeed, the world.
• • A 95-minute play set during the Prohibition Era, "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets" will be directed by Louis Lopardi, who has also worked with The Annual Fresh Fruit Festival as their very capable Production Manager and Technical Director.
• • The Algonquin Theatre (at 123 East 24th Street, NYC 10010) houses two air-conditioned performance spaces: the 99-seat "Kaufman" and the 40-seat "Parker." The Kaufman features a proscenium stage that is 21 feet wide and 23 feet deep.
• • The larger playhouse is named in honor of George S. Kaufman [16 November 1889 - 2 June 1961], an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. The petite playing space honors another Algonquin Round Table member: author Dorothy Parker [22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967]. Both writers attended performances of Mae West's plays during the 1920s and critiqued them.
• • • • SOURCE: http://www.BroadwayAfterDark.com
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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