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Ward Morehouse III was born in New York City on August 11, 1945, the son of newspaperman/drama critic [[Ward Morehouse|Ward Morehouse II]] and actress-turned-publisher Joan Marlowe.<ref name=Miller>{{cite web|last=Miller|first=Stephen|title=Joan Marlowe, 88, Published Theater Bulletin|url=https://www.nysun.com/obituaries/joan-marlowe-88-published-theater-bulletin/72661/|publisher=TWO SL LLC|accessdate=14 June 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116070414/https://www.nysun.com/obituaries/joan-marlowe-88-published-theater-bulletin/72661/|archive-date=January 16, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> He grew up in New York City hotels and relocated to [[Darien, CTConnecticut]], when his mother remarried. He graduated from [[Darien High School]] in 1963, and then attended the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]] for two years before joining the acting company of the [[American Shakespeare Festival]] in 1966 as a member of the acting company.

Morehouse held various jobs from 1966 to 1969 while tryingwriting to become a playwrightplays and attending [[Columbia University School of General Studies]] at night. In 1969, he joined the [[New York Post]] as a [[copy boy]], briefly becoming a police reporter in 1972 before leaving the Post in 1973 for The Christian Science Monitor.<ref name=CSMonitor>{{cite web|firstwebsite=CSMonitor|title=Search Results|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/content/search?SearchText=%22Ward+Morehouse+III%22|publisher=The First Church of Christ Scientist|accessdate=14 July 14, 2012}}</ref>

Morehouse was a staff correspondent at the [[Christian Science Monitor]] from 1973 through 1983. From 1973 to 1976, Morehousehe covered business and consumer issues in Boston.<ref name="CSMonitor" /> He also wrote a lengthy series on New England railroads, [[rural poverty,]] and business.<ref name="CSMonitor" /> After transferring to The Monitor’sMonitor's New York City bureau, heMorehouse covered politics,<ref name="CSMonitor" /> stories of New York life,<ref name="CSMonitor" /> and increasingly, entertainment-based pieces about [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] from 1977- to 1983. After 1983, he continued to freelance for The Monitor and write for additional publications including Theatre Magazine, The [[Baltimore Sun,]] and The [[Philadelphia Inquirer]].

HisMorehouse's play, ''The Actors'', was first produced [[Off-Off Broadway]] at the >Troupe Theatre in November 1982. In 1986, ''The Actors''<ref name=Rich>{{cite webnews|last=Rich|first=Frank|title=Theatre: 'THE ACTORS'|url=httphttps:https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/17/theater/theater-the-actors.html|accessdate=14 June 14, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 17, 1982|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125123247/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/17/theater/theater-the-actors.html|archive-date=January 25, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> was produced on an Off-Broadway contract at the Royal Court Theatre on Manhattan’s[[West Side (Manhattan)|Manhattan's West Side]] and ran until May 1987. He then produced his next play ''My Four Mothers'' at the [[Jan Hus Presbyterian Church|Jan Hus Theatre]] with a $10,000 grant from the Lambs Foundation</span> of the [[Lambs Club]]. Over the next few years, Morehouse had two other plays produced on Off-Off Broadway.

In 1991, M Evans & Company published hisMorehouse's first book ''The Waldorf-Astoria: America's Gilded Dream''.<ref name=Lunman>{{cite web|last=Lunman|first=Kim|title=Fancy That! And a Book Review…Review...|url=https://www.thousandislandslife.com/BackIssues/Archive/tabid/393/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/611/Fancy-That-And-a-Book-Reviewhellip.aspx|workwebsite=thousandislandlife.com|publisher=Thousand Islands Magazine|accessdate=June 14, June2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220051954/https://www.thousandislandslife.com/BackIssues/Archive/tabid/393/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/611/Fancy-That-And-a-Book-Reviewhellip.aspx|archive-date=February 20, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, Morehouse began freelancing on a regular basis for the [[Reuters News Agency]], covering ''The Business of Broadway'' and writing occasional reviews of Broadway shows for Reuters as well as [[Reuters TV]]. In 1994, he returned to the pages of the New York Post<ref name=NYPost>{{cite web|first=NYPost|title=Search Results|url=https://search.nypost.com/search?q=%22Ward+Morehouse+III%22&sort=date:D:S:d1&entsp=a&client=redesign_frontend&entqr=0&oe=UTF-8&ud=1&getfields=*&proxystylesheet=redesign_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&site=default_collection&filter=p&search_submit=Search&ie=UTF-8&ip=192.168.0.3&access=p&start=40|publisher=NYP Holdings, Inc.|accessdate=14 July 2012}}</ref> adding the job of weekly "On & Off Broadway” columnist to his reporting, until 1998. Morehouse was the first to report in July 1994 that Disney's ''The Lion King'' was headed for Broadway, which Disney vigorously denied. Two years later, Morehouse and the New York Post were vindicated when the New York Times broke a story that ''The Lion King'' was coming to Broadway. Morehouse left The Post in 1998,<ref name=Playbill.com>{{cite web|authorlink1=Robert Simonson|last=Simonson|first=Robert|title=Post's Ward Morehouse Resigns & Michael Riedel Replaces Him in NY Tabloid Shakeup|url=https://www.playbill.com/news/article/41833-Posts-Ward-Morehouse-Resigns-Michael-Riedel-Replaces-Him-in-NY-Tabloid-Shakeup|publisher=Playbill, Inc.|accessdate=June 14, June2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116041032/https://www.playbill.com/news/article/41833-Posts-Ward-Morehouse-Resigns-Michael-Riedel-Replaces-Him-in-NY-Tabloid-Shakeup|archive-date=January 201216, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> but continued to freelance celebrity news stories for them until 2000.

==2000 to the Presentpresent==

Morehouse ended his freelancing with The New York Post in 2000, when he had thehis last interview on record with stage and screen legend [[Katharine Hepburn]]. In 2002, he joined the [regenerated] New York Sun<ref name="Miller" /> as the ''Broadway After Dark'' columnist, reviving the popular column originally writteninitiated by his father for the original New York Sun. He held that post until late 2004 when he joined [[amNew York, taking his column to that publication]]. HeMorehouse worked for amNew York for two years, after which he brought the column to The [[Epoch Times]].

In 2001, ''[[If It Was Easy]]'',<ref name="ifitwaseasy">{{cite web|last=Stewart|first=Lane|title=If It Was Easy |url=https://www.ifitwaseasy.com/index.html|workwebsite=www.mrbroadway.com|publisher=Stewart Lane|accessdate=July 14, July2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926222559/https://www.ifitwaseasy.com/index.html|archive-date=September 26, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> a play Morehouse co-wrote with [[Stewart F. Lane]], a Broadway producer and theater owner,<ref name=Lane>{{cite web|last=Lane|first=Stewart F.|title=MrBroadway.com|url=https://www.mrbroadway.com/|publisher=Stewart F. Lane|accessdate=June 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621003001/https://mrbroadway.com/|archive-date=June 21, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> was produced Off-Broadway at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. It ran for four months. Also that year, his second book, ''Inside the Plaza: An Intimate Portrait of the Ultimate Hotel''<ref name="Lunman" /> was published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of the [[Hal Leonard]] Corporation.

In 2006, Morehouse wrote ''Life at the Top: Inside New York's Grand Hotels'',<ref name="Lunman" /> one of three books to be published with BearManor Media. This was followed by ''Discovering the Hudson, a history of the historic Hudson Theatre'' in 2007. In 2010 Morehouse wrote ''London's Grand Hotels'',<ref name="Lunman" /> a history of nearly 30 London grand hotels, including [[Savoy Hotel|The Savoy]], [[The Dorchester]], and Brown's. It was also published by BearManor Media. This book made Morehouse one of the top hotel authors in America.

In 2010, Morehouse co-wrote the play ''Gangplank''<ref name="Broadway World">{{cite web|last=News Desk|first=BWW|title=GANGPLANK Begins Two Week Engagement At Chernuchin Theatre 4/19 |url=https://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/GANGPLANK_Begins_Two_Week_Engagement_At_Chernuchin_Theatre_419_20100406|publisher=Broadwayworld.com|accessdate=June 14 June, 2012}}</ref> with Mark Druck, which was produced by the American Theatre of Actors on West 54th Street as an Off-Off Broadway production.

* The Actors, November, 1982

* My Four Mothers, 1987

* The Caedmon School: An Anecdotal History and Appreciation, with Gregory A. Minahan (Xlibris Corp -– April 2003)

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