On Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, for Parkerfest, the Dorothy Parker Society held a staged reading of “Close Harmony” at UrbanStages Theatre, 259 W. 30th Street. It was written in 1924 by Dorothy Parker and Elmer Rice. We believed it had not seen the light of day since. The DPS booked the actors and theatre to…
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4 Days of Events for Parkerfest in NYC
Parkerfest started in 1999 in New York, and this annual party looks to be among the most ambitious ones the Dorothy Parker Society has ever put on. It will be four days long, Aug. 26-29, with fun activities spread out from Gramercy Park to Governors Island. Here is the complete schedule: Parkerfest 2010 Schedule Thursday,…
New Book of Lost Robert Benchley Material
We got a press release from Thomas Saunders of the Robert Benchley Society. He points us to a new book of Benchley work coming out this month: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises From The Detroit Athletic Club News By Robert Benchley Presented in their original form these pieces have not been seen in decades. Hilarious and…
Dorothy Parker Complete Poems Released Again
The Portable Dorothy Parker was the only book of Mrs. Parker’s work in print when she died in 1967. Today readers can practically put together an entire bookshelf of work by and about Mrs. Parker. To add to this Parker Pantheon is a new book from Penguin Classics that collects almost all of her poems—both…
New Parker Show for Valentine’s Day
We got word that there is a new show based on Dorothy Parker material, the first one for 2010 (and it won’t be the last). The show is running in Mrs. Parker’s old neighborhood too, the Upper West Side. “Against Her Better Judgement” runs at the Drilling Company Theater, 236 West 78th Street, February 11-13th…
New York Library Association Overlooks Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker has been passed over for inclusion in the inaugural group of a dozen authors named to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. The list of writers whose “writings have made a lasting contribution to literature” was chosen by the New York Library Association and they will be feted at a gala…