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Molly Ryan Channels Weimar Republic at June Party

Molly Ryan

The monthly Dorothy Parker Society party with Wit’s End is back for another fantastic evening of hot jazz, classic cocktails, and vintage clothes. This month, we have a theme that takes us to 1920s Germany…

Like a little Weimar Republic with your party-going? Come to a night of Kabaret at Wit’s End™ and drink Prohibition era cocktails and dance to Molly Ryan & Verboten Swing!

Come in your finest jazz age or vintage insured attire to salute Weimar cabaret in style with live hot jazz an...

Electronically, Parker’s Ills are Spilled Again

In a month when Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin both put out new albums, Dorothy Parker joins their company with new material from her longtime publisher.

While Jackson’s heirs performed a séance to bring out new songs and Jimmy Page himself remastered Whole Lotta Love, Penguin Classics turned to their own house archivist on all things Parker, Marion Meade.

On May 27 the venerable house released two new electronic books of digital material. Alpine Giggle Week ($1.99) is a 1930 letter Parker pe...

See New Work By Artist Natalie Simon

Our favorite artist is Natalie, the creator of the fantastic painting that permanently hangs in the Algonquin Hotel called “The Vicious Circle.” We got word from the talented painter and sculptor: she has her art in not one, but three, upcoming shows in the coming weeks. She uses an alias, Natalie Simon. Visit her blog to see samples.

These three Brooklyn exhibitions, one of them a studio visit, will allow you to see Natalie’s work:

Centotto’s Legend Anew

Opening reception: Wednesday, May 28, 7...

Early Life of Dorothy Parker Brought to Stage

Janette Johnston

A new play about Dorothy Parker’s early life and career is coming to New York for four performances as part of the 17th annual Black Box New Play Festival at the Gallery Players Theater. Encore, Encore is written by Colin Crowley and directed by Paula D’Alessandris. It opens June 12 in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

In Encore, Encore, audiences meet Dorothy Parker as she begins her journey to literary fame. As her career surges, her personal life collapses. The leads are Janette Johnsto...

Parker Posey, Hope Davis, Other Stars to Read Dorothy Parker Stories on May 21

Parker Posey

One of New York’s best cultural spots is Symphony Space, on the Upper West Side just around the corner from where Dorothy Parker once resided. So it’s special that Symphony Space decided to remember the former neighborhood resident with an evening of her best short stories, read by stars of stage and and screen.

On May 21, at 7:30pm, the Symphony Space Selected Shorts: Dorothy Parker’s Wicked Pen, will be read by:

Hope Davis (About Schmidt)

Heather Burns (Dinner with Friends, Bored...

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923, Released This Month

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway

The press release goes out today, so now my secret project for the last five years can finally be announced: Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918-1923. I think anyone who is a fan of Dorothy Parker will enjoy this news. The book comes out 5-14-14 and is available now via iUniverse. It will be in all other online booksellers after May 14. I recommend the best way to get the book is to go to a local bookstore and order it; the book weighs almost 2 pounds and...

March 29 Walking Tour Cancelled

I’m sorry, but the March 29 walking tour has been cancelled. The next walking tour is Saturday, April 12. Info here.

Monthly Party March 29 with Myriam Phiro

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 Party!

Brought together by a mutual love of French cuisine and French music, Myriam Phiro and Robbie Kleinberg began their musical partnership and Miss Phiro’s Swing Party wa...

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 the record are:

1. Threnody

2. Solace

3. The False Friends

4. Ballade of a Great Weariness

5. Recurrence

6. The Red Dress

7. The Last Question

8. Not So Deep as a Well

9. So...

Spring Walking Tour Schedule

Dorothy Rothschild’s former school on West 79th Street.

Here is the spring walking tour schedule:

Walk #1: The Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour

Saturday, March 29, and Saturday, May 31

Noon-2:30 PM, Algonquin Hotel

The Algonquin Round Table comes alive in the only New York walking tour devoted to the famed literary group. The 2-hour walk celebrates Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Edna Ferber, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Robert Sherwood, Marc Con...