Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
While researching my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I uncovered a lost 1952 radio show recorded inside the Algonquin Hotel, The Tex and Jinx Show. Among the guests are owner Ben Bodne, Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner, and screenwriter-author Anita Loos. It’s an amazing time capsule of the hotel, at…
LONG BRANCH — She was a media celebrity, decades before they invented the phrase. A hard-partying rehab veteran, back when such things were kept strictly confidential. A crusader for civil rights, in an age when that was considered career suicide. An Oscar nominated screenwriter, back when a serious author simply didn’t socialize with THOSE people….
There is a Dorothy Parker production coming to Off Broadway, at the Soho Playhouse, in October and November. Excuse My Dust (A Dorothy Parker Portfolio) October 5th, 2014 – November 9th, 2014 Soho Playhouse 15 Vandam Street New York City NY 10013 (212) 691-1555 Get tickets here. From the press release: Michael Shannon will present…
The Dorothy Parker Society is pleased to be invited to two free private screenings, in New York and Los Angeles, for the exciting new documentary about the artist-sculptor Altina Schinasi.
The Noël Coward & Dorothy Parker Societies Invite You to a Private Party at the Algonquin Hotel. The Algonquin Hotel Celebrates The Return Of The Legendary Round Table With A Dinner Followed By A Cabaret Performance In The Oak Room!! Tuesday, September 9, 2014 6:30 PM 59 W. 44th Street Between Fifth and Sixth avenues…
It’s Dorothy Parker Day in the Catskill Mountains! Come out to Bright Hill Press & Literary Center. It’s in Treadwell, a hamlet located within the town of Franklin in Delaware County, New York. Saturday, August 23, 12-5:30 PM Bright Hill Literary Center 94 Church St. Treadwell, NY 13846 Bright Hill’s Second Great American Poets Day…