Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick

Natalie Ascencios, our favorite painter in the whole world since she did the beautiful Round Table painting that hangs in the Algonquin Hotel, is having a gallery show. If you live around Los Angeles, maybe you can attend the opening, which is Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7 pm. The show runs for three weeks and…

Attention Chicagoland: The Chicago Humanities Festival is scheduled to present You Might As Well Live on Nov. 7, 2004. This one-woman musical play, featuring Broadway and cabaret star Karen Mason, uses Mrs. Parker’s poetry and one short story, “The Waltz,” as lyrics for a tuneful and jazzy score. In the play, a middle-aged Dorothy Parker…

The Ladies Of The Corridor a staged reading of the 1953 Dorothy Parker stage classic. Part of the Theatre West Sunday Classics Reading Series. Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, in Los Angeles. This is between Universal Citywalk and the Hollywood Bowl. Sunday October 24, 2004 at 2 p.m. Info here. www.dorothyparker.com

The Peccadillo Theater Company is doing a staged reading of Dorothy Parker’s final Broadway play The Ladies of the Corridor on Thursday, November 18, at 8:00 pm at NYU’s Skirball Center. Tickets are $30 for the general public, $12 for NYU students, and $20 for seniors and non-NYU students. More info. www.dorothyparker.com

The band that is peforming for Parkerfest on Friday night got together last night at Parker HQ to rehearse. An incredible collection of musicians! We have: Christopher Pistorino (upright bass), Aya Kato (piano), Tom Abbott (clarinet), Sean Condron (banjo) and Bliss Blood & Cindy Ball (vocals). No drum kit, electric guitars, etc. In fact, the…