The Dorothy Parker Society has a monthly party the last Saturday night of the month, January-October, with Wit’s End, the best vintage society in the nation. On Saturday, March 29, in NYC, come to Wit’s End and celebrate Spring while you drink Prohibition era cocktails and dance to live hot jazz from Myriam Phiro’s Swing…
Montreal Singer Records Dorothy Parker-themed Album
We’ve been following the progress of Myriam Gendron in Montreal. This month, the Canadian singer-songwriter released an album based on Dorothy Parker verse. Not So Deep as a Well is a co-release by Feeding Tube Records and Mama Bird Recording Company. She licensed the material from Mrs. Parker’s estate. The Parker poems that are on…
Spring Walking Tour Schedule
Here is the spring walking tour schedule. (Note the March 29 walk is cancelled): Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side Walking Tour Saturday, April 12 Noon-2:00 PM, Riverside Park and West Seventy-second Street Visit Dorothy Parker’s neighborhood and walk in her footsteps to her former apartments, haunts, school and more. See one of the most beautiful…
Third Annual Food Book Fair Returns to Brooklyn April 25-27
I am going to be talking about cocktails and Dorothy Parker, along with my book Under the Table: A Dorothy Parker Cocktail Guide, at a fantastic event in Brooklyn. My event with other authors is on Saturday, April 26, time and place TBD. Below is the press release about the Third Annual Food Book Fair:…
Red Hook Ramblers to Play January Party
The Dorothy Parker Society doesn’t have meetings, it has parties. And our first one of 2014 is going to be a great one. We are back with another fun night with Wit’s End! Saturday Night, Jan. 25, Celebrate the Jazz Age! Come to the former speakeasy Flute Midtown, 205 West 54th Street (near Broadway). Our…
Parker Show Returns to South Africa with Longer Run
In 2008 we interviewed actress-playwright Emily Child about her South Africa show based on Dorothy Parker material. We are happy to report she is back, with a longer run with an updated version of her show. Below is the press release about A Certain Lady. Directed by Gregory Karvellas and performed by Emily Child, A…