Dorothy Parker News

The award-winning SkyPilot Theatre Company continues its ever-popular Runway series with a double bill of Judy Klass plays.

The John W. Engeman Theater has announced the cast and creative team of MYSTIC PIZZA - A New Musical. Performances begin on Thursday, September 15, 2022, and run through Sunday, October 30, 2022.

The newest celebrated Hamlet sequel is slated for a world premiere at Bruka Theatre in Reno next March.

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation has launched its latest online exhibition “Call Her Madam: Sex. Crime & Fun in Polly Adler's New York.”

Join playwright David Simpatico and composer Lisa DeSpain as they discuss their new work, That Hell-Bound Train, on Saturday, July 23rd at 5pm as part of the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat’s “Meet the Writers” series. This special event will take place at Clinton Community Library at historic Clinton Town Hall in Rhinebeck, NY (1215 Centre Road) and will include a meet and greet reception, followed by a discussion and Q&A with David and Lisa about That Hell-Bound Train. 

Whether you’re a guest of the city or a native New Yorker, a visit to Tavern on the Green, the iconic restaurant located on Central Park West is a must. This ever-charming modern American restaurant is sure to please.

Since Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007), the author of 'Slaughterhouse-Five,' would have been 100 this year, the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company is celebrating the occasion by offering three of his charming stories in 'Who Am I This Time? (& Other Conundrums of Love.)'  Adapted by Aaron Posner, these humorous tales filled with heart take place in the small town of North Crawford, Connecticut in 1962.

Applications are available for the award-winning East Lynne Theater Company's 16th Annual Summer Student Workshop. For the last fifteen years, students have performed a variety of shows in front of enthusiastic audiences.

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company's popular 'Tales of the Victorians' returns for its thirty-third year.  Take tea at a unique Cape May venue, indulge in tantalizing treats, and listen to stories by famous American authors like O. Henry, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mark Twain read by ELTC performers for only $12.00. Children are always welcome, and ages 12 and under are free. 

Write Act Repertory Co. will present the world premiere of THE FUNNY MAN, a solo play about America's greatest comic writer, S.J. Perelman,  June 19 – July 17, 2022, at the Brickhouse Theatre in N. Hollywood.  Performances are Sat. nights at 8pm, Sunday matinees at 1.30 pm.

'I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy,' was just one of Dorothy Parker's famous quotes. 

Public media producer GBH presents Greenwood Overcomes, a special two-hour radio broadcast of the Tulsa Opera's 2021 concert commemorating the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Three plays where what seems like the truth might be a subjective point of view.

A new play about the decades-long, tempestuous friendship between Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley will receive an industry reading on Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

'The question is the sequence of events leading from the jewel-case at one end, to the stomach of a goose at the other.' Sherlock Holmes is speaking to Dr. Watson as they begin an investigation that might save an innocent man from prison.

 The Broad Stage presents An Evening with Fran Lebowitz, star of the recent Netflix series Pretend it’s a City directed by Martin Scorsese. Lebowitz will appear on stage for four performances only April 28 through May 1, 2022.   A Q+A with the audience follows the performance.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) welcomes Fran Lebowitz to Newark on Sunday, December 11, 2022, at 3 PM for conversation, sass, and wits! Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker, and now Fran invites you to discover the woman behind the name in this evening of intimate conversation. 

KMFA Classical 89.5 announces KMFA Day on Saturday, April 23, 2022 from 2:00pm – 6:00pm at KMFA’s new home, 41 Navasota Street, Austin TX 78702. The entire event will be free and open to the public.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced casting for the world premiere production of The Bedwetter, a new musical with a book by Drama Desk Award winner Joshua Harmon and Emmy Award winner Sarah Silverman, lyrics by Emmy Award winner Adam Schlesinger and Sarah Silverman.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will host its indoor/outdoor Jack Jones Children's Literacy Gala on Saturday, April 23 at 6:00 pm.