Mr. Lane is co-owner and co-operator of the Palace Theatre in New York City with the Nederlander Organization, and was directly involved in the renovation and restoration of the theatre. He is currently looking to purchase another Broadway or Off-Broadway theatre.
Mr. Lane is a founding member as well as Chairmen of the Board of Directors for the Theater Museum. The mission of The Theatre Museum is to preserve, protect and perpetuate the legacy of theatre.
Mr. Lane sits on the current Board of Governors for the Actors Fund of America. The Actors Fund is a nationwide human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment. The Fund is a safety net, providing programs and services for those who are in need, crisis or transition.
Mr. Lane sits on the current Board of Governors for the Friars Club.
Since 1904 The Friars Club has been wining and dining the top personalities of the times and in-between courses expounding and discoursing in their own unique fashion. From ribald comedy to musical merry-making the Friars have spent a century cultivating a tradition that has spanned several generations and spawned millions of laughs.
Mr. Lane sits on the Board of Advisors for The American Theatre Wing. Best known for creating The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards®, now presented with The Broadway League, ATW has developed the best-known national platform for the recognition of theatrical achievement on Broadway.
Mr. Lane sat on the Board of Governors of The Broadway League for eleven years and still remains a member of the League today. The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Our members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in New York and more than 250 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and on tour across the U.S. and Canada.
Mr. Lane was involved in the renovation of a warehouse which is now the home of the Tribeca Film Centre and the Tribeca Grill, which he owns with Robert DeNiro.
Mr. Lane is a partner of ROGAR STUDIOS, the producers of DITTYDODDLE WORKS.
Mr. Lane's latest book, 20th Century Broadway: Volume 1: The Jewish Contribution, is set for a Spring release through McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. From Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern to Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken and Tony Kushner, Jewish performers, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and producers have made an indelible mark on Broadway for more than a century. This unique volume captures the story of the Jewish emergence from immigrants living in ghetto living conditions staging Yiddish Theater productions on New York’s Lower East Side to their significant social and cultural impact on the stages of Broadway. Tony Award winning author Stewart F. Lane also provides his own insights and anecdotes from working with many of the Jewish legends of American theater.
Available now at Barnes N Noble and Amazon.
The DVD based on Stewart F. Lane's book is now available.
The grand master, Mr. Broadway himself, is at your side to help you to avoid common pitfalls and orchestrate the success of our show—whether you’re working in a high school, college, community,
or regional theatre.
A new book by Stewart F. Lane
(published by Heinemann Books)
An educational “how-to” and entertaining guide for anyone (children thru adults) with a desire to learn about the production of a show in any capacity.
With glamour, grace and an inner fire that blazed a trail for generations, the legendary Lena Horne has never failed to amaze! Taking both Hollywood and the music industry by storm, her voice has resonated throughout the decades, not only through her incredible vocal talent ("From This Moment On," "The Lady is a Tramp" and of course"Stormy Weather"), but also through her determination to fight for what she believed. Don't miss this new musical extravaganza as she takes us on the sometimes stormy, always extraordinary journey of an American icon.
By Larry Shue
This production ran from September 26 until October 22, 2006 at the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland.
The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.
By Douglas J. Cohen
This production played October 18 - November 16, 2002 at the Lyric Stage Company in Boston, MA.
A used car salesman, a dentist, a real estate agent, a financial advisor, a deli owner and a music teacher get together once a week to play jazz. It is the highlight of their lives. When one answers an ad and gets a two week gig in the Catskills, they shed their ordinary lives and begin an adventure that reveals truths about friendship, the joy of music and the importance of dreams. The gig is not what they expected and each returns from the Catskills changed by the experience. The actors need not play instruments; they mime performances. This winner of the 1994 Richard Rogers Grant was inaugurated at the Manhattan Theatre Club's New Musicals in Concert at City Center and was developed at the O'Neill Music Theatre Conference and the Goodspeed at Chester.
By Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.
This production ran from July 1 until September 15, 2002 at The Vineyard Playhouse, a professional nonprofit theater on Martha's Vineyard.
Named after the song by Fats Waller, "Ain't Misbehavin'". It serves as a tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and '30s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and ethnic pride, and takes its title from the 1929 Waller song "Ain't Misbehavin'". It was a time when Manhattan nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playgrounds of high society and Lenox Avenue dives were filled with piano players banging out the new beat known as swing. Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller's view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.
By Stewart F. Lane and Ward Morehouse III
Performances opened Off-Broadway March 8, 2001, and ran to April 1st, 2001 at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater.
Never was the theatre ruled more by collaboration than during Broadway's Golden Age, when dunamic duos sucjh as Kaufman and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Lindsay and Crousse fuelled the footlights. Now the marquee is lit up again by another deadly deuce.
By A.R. Gurney
The production ran from August 20 to September 11, 1999 at the Actor's Theater of Nantucket in Massachusetts.
The play takes place in a once elegant townhouse in Manhattan, the home of Isabel Hastings Hoyt, an aging but still charming recluse who had been a glittering figure in the literary salons of the 1920s. Now short of money, Mrs. Hoyt is concerned about the future of her granddaughter, Virginia, a twice-divorced near-alcoholic whom she hopes to see securely married before she herself, as she puts it, "kicks the bucket." In earlier years, Mrs. Hoyt was friend and confidante of many world figures, especially F. Scott Fitzgerald who, it is rumored, used her as the model of Daisy in The Great Gatsby. This fact leads Tom, an ambitious young academic, to seek her out. Tom believes that Mrs. Hoyt possesses an unpublished chapter from Gatsby which depicts passionate lovemaking between Gatsby and Daisy, a literary treasure which he is determined to procure no matter how devious the means. It is this obsession that sets up the increasingly complex and perilous relationship which develops between the three protagonistsa relationship that, inexorably, leads to the startling and ironic denouement of the play.
By Tim Kelly
This production ran at the Powerhouse Performing Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. 2001
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, returns to his Swiss chateau to escape a terrible pursuer. No one can shake free the dark secret that terrifies him: not his mother, nor his fiancee, nor his best friend. Even the pleading of a gypsy girl accused of murdering Victor's younger brother falls on deaf ears, for Victor has brought into being a creature made from pieces of the dead. The creature tracks Victor to his sanctuary to demand a bride to share its loneliness. Against his better judgement, Victor agrees and soon the household is invaded by murder, despair and terror!
By Billy Goda
With Chazz Palminteri and Stephen Baldwin, this production was performed May 17th and 18th, 2004 at Revelation Theater in New York City.
By Stewart F. Lane
This staged reading, featuring Shannen Doherty, was performed at the Revelation Theater in New York City on May 25th and 26th, 2004.
Two aspiring young actors in love with each other and the theatre get their big break when they are cast in a new musical written by their Svengali-like acting teacher, Bernardo. But when the show moves to Broadway, only Melinda is asked to move with it. Can love stay alive on the Great White Way?
By Frederick Stroppel
This production ran from July 18th through the 28th, 1996 at the Weitzenhoffer Theatre in Norman, OK.
By Frederick Stroppel
This staged reading was performed at New Dramatists on May 19, 1994.
The rocky road to romance is trod by four people in their late twenties in this snappy look at love and marriage.
Stewart Lane signed a deal with Hybrid Entertainment for a first look deal of 5 made-for-TV movies, the first of which was recently completed, entitled American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James.
Mr. Lane is producing the television presentation of "Cyrano de Bergerac" for PBS. It will be broadcast on Great Performances in Fall '08.
Mr. Lane produced the new made-for-TV Holiday movie, A Nanny for Christmas. Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major ad campaign immediately. Could it all somehow lead to the Christmas that changes everyone's lives forever? Richard Ruccolo, Sierra McCormick, Jared Gilmore and Sarah Thompson co-star in this surprising comedy about little white lies, big holiday wishes, and a woman who may just find love in the most unexpected places by becoming A NANNY FOR CHRISTMAS.
Mr. Lane produced the documentary Of Horse and Man, narrated by Glenn Close.
In 2007 we set out to make a simple documentary about the connection between horse and man.
290 hours of video and over 1000 still images later we have created a 3 part, 3 hour series about our love for horses.
So whether you own a horse, ride or simply admire horses from afar... you will learn a great deal about our relationship with this majestic creature through the centuries.
Mr. Lane produced the taping of Sondheim, the Birthday Concert with the NY Philharmonic for PBS's Great Performances. The two-hour concert aired on PBS’s Great Performances Wednesday, November 24 at 9 p.m. In a year chock full of star-studded 80th birthday tributes to legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the March 15–16 gala evenings with the New York Philharmonic at New York’s Lincoln Center stood tall.
Jennie Garth of ''90210'' stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of ''General Hospital'') is a single dad of two tomboys who owns a local winery. When Susan's dog Rusty (voiced by Jay Mohr of ''Ghost Whisperer'') falls for Jake's poodle Cheri (voiced by Nikki Cox of ''Las Vegas''), these canine matchmakers help their owners fall in love too. Now with a Christmas Day wedding to plan -- and major complications threatening to unravel it all -- can two mismatched broods find a way to make one happy family? Tom Arnold and Catherine Hicks (''Seventh Heaven'') co-star in this heartwarming holiday film from the producer/director of The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Your Love Never Fails.
Amanda ( Emmanuelle Vaugier) and John (Scott Elrod) have just adopted a beautiful baby girl from Eastern Europe. After years of frustration they finally have the child they always wanted. But something's not right & before long they uncover shocking and dangerous secrets about how the baby came to them.
is an upcoming Western film about the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp sitting down having an interview with a reporter in Los Angeles and talks about his first ride to find the person who killed his first love. Val Kilmer will be starring as Earp. The film is set for release on March 6th, 2012 in the United States. The movie is based on the legendary Old West lawman. The film will be produced by Jeff Schenck and Barry Barnholtz and directed by Michael Feifer.
Company's plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends. It's a concept musical composed of short vignettes, presented in no particular chronological order, linked by a celebration for Bobby's 35th birthday
Neil Patrick Harris leads a star-studded cast which includes Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Christina Hendricks, Craig Bierko and Martha Plimpton.
Coming October 2011
The first ever stage adaptation of the 1935 smash hit RKO film Top Hat, which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This will tour the UK throughout 2011. http://www.tophatonstage.com/home/
Utilizing songs from John Denver, one of America's most cherished songwriters and performers, A MOMENT IN TIME, is about a marine in Afganistan who, moments before a battle, recalls a safer, happier place. Vist the official website http://amomentintimemusical.com/
A new comedy by Stewart F. Lane
"If anyone should be well-versed in the ingredients that make a hit, it's Stewart F. Lane, the force behind nearly a dozen Broadway successes! One walks away mightily entertained." -Time Out New York
A new comedy by Stewart F. Lane and Ward Morehouse III
(published by Performing Books, Best New Play Nomination, American Theatre Critics Association)
"If It Was Easy... seems to be a throwback to another era, an era it cherishes; it's comparable to a screwball comedy. It pays tribute to the world of Broadway..." -Show Business
Utilizing songs from John Denver, one of America's most cherished songwriters and performers, A MOMENT IN TIME, is about a marine in Afganistan who, moments before a battle, recalls a safer, happier place. The new musical received its world premiere at the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center in New York, June 2010.
Let's Put On A Show! DVD
With glamour, grace and an inner fire that blazed a trail for generations, the legendary Lena Horne has never failed to amaze.
