Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
On Saturday I debuted my W.C. Fields History Walking Tour as part of Fields Fest, a 6-week celebration of the life of the great comedian. Dorothy Parker was a huge fan of Fields. In my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I was really happy to be able to include a…
I am really excited to learn a member of the Dorothy Parker Society is continuing an amazing project that would tickle Mrs. Parker to know about. Actress-Singer Kimberly Faye Greenberg is bringing her one-woman show Fabulous Fanny: The Songs and Stories of Fanny Brice to 54 Below in Manhattan on February 12, 2015. When I…
Today in the United States it is Martin Luther King Day, of course Dorothy Parker left her estate to him. This morning I created a little social media image, drawing on a line from a March 1921 review that appeared in Ainslee’s. Not long afterwards, I got an IM from someone, saying they “never heard…
One of Dorothy Parker’s contemporaries is hitting the New York scene in a big way. Tallulah Bankhead, a late addition to the Algonquin Round Table, is the subject of no less than three shows on and off-Broadway. Kathleen Turner is in one of them. One can expect Mrs. Parker’s name to be among the scripts…
It has been five years since she starred in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, but Jennifer Jason Leigh is back to the Dorothy Parker look. In the new (Feb.) issue of Paper magazine, she is sporting the full-on Parker bangs and vintage dresses. JJL is now on Broadway in Cabaret, and she says in…