There is another production in Pennsylvania of Algonquin Round Table material this month. What is it with the Keystone State and the Twenties? We got a note from playwright Michael Gerhardt that his new show The Vicious Circle will be at the Footlighters Theater, 58 Main Avenue, Berwyn, PA 19312. The show is January 18,…
New Community Service Project Begins in 2008
The Dorothy Parker Society is taking part in a community service project that helps New York City schoolchildren. It begins Tuesday, January 8. If you want to participate, contact Kevin Fitzpatrick, president of the DPS. The program is with the Police Athletic League at the Duncan Center. The first meeting will be begin on Tuesday,…
London to Get Chenoweth Singing Parker
London’s Dorothy Parker fans will get the chance to hear one of America’s brightest theater talents singing a Parker-penned song. Kristin Chenoweth, the Tony award-winning star who made her name as Glinda in the original Broadway cast of Wicked, is to make her English National Opera debut in a new co-production, with Théâtre du Châtelet…
Pennsylvania Parker Show in January
We got a message that there is a new production of Dorothy Parker material coming to a theatre in Pennsylvania. (It is close to Media, Pa., Delaware County Seat, and Swarthmore). The Hedgerow Theatre and School146 West Rose Valley Rd.Wallingford, PA 19086 Dorothy Parker & Friends – One Perfect RosePenelope Reed, David O’Connor & the…
Parker in Paris? Oui!
The degree of separation between Dorothy Parker and the president of France is 1. That would be Carla Bruni. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, took Bruni on a trip to Egypt over the Christmas holiday, stepping out into headlines with the stunning French-Italian supermodel/singer. Sarkozy recently announced he and his wife split up. With Bruni…
New Parker Book Coming in 2008
In exclusive Dorothy Parker Society news, Penguin Classics will be bringing out a new Parker book in May 2008. It is The Ladies of the Corridor, a play she wrote in 1953 in collaboration with Arnaud D’Usseau. The book has not been available in more than 50 years, and Penguin Classics is bringing it out…