Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
To answer the demand for walking tours, they are going to be held weekly in July and August this summer. Beginning July 11, there will be a Monday Dorothy Parker Upper West Side Tour weekly at Noon. Starting on July 15 will be the 3:00 PM “Robert Benchley-Dorothy Parker Summer Friday” every Friday. Advance tickets…
Possibly the best movie-related news in the world of Dorothy Parker came down this week. According to the New York Daily News, Bradley Cooper is behind a remake of A Star Is Born, and his Vicki Lester will be Lady Gaga to his Norman Maine. The 1937 classic screenplay was co-created by Dorothy Parker, her…
The forty-ninth anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s death is Tuesday, June 7. We will be marking the occasion in New York at the Blue Bar of the Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th Street, from 5-7:00 p.m. If you can’t join us, a raise a glass or read a poem wherever you may. The 1967 front-page obituary…
Dorothy Parker loved animals, as all true fans know. So we always like to celebrate whenever the Algonquin Hotel brings out Matilda for any event, and Monday, May 16 is a good one. The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals will have a cat adoption truck parked in front of the hotel in honor of the…
The New York State Writers Hall of Fame has added to its august body. The induction ceremony is next month at The Lambs, and more fantastic writers are joining the Hall of Fame. The honorees are chosen by the Empire State Center for the Book. Dorothy Parker was admitted in 2011 and Edna Ferber was…
Celebrate two of New York’s greatest fiction writers on a walking tour to trace their footsteps in the neighborhoods they made famous: Dorothy Parker and Dawn Powell. See their homes and haunts on a walk that begins at the landmark Algonquin Hotel and ends in Greenwich Village. The tour starts at Noon on Sunday, June…