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Dorothy Parker Night

Toast the woman who was the talk of the town in the Roaring Twenties, Dorothy Parker. “If I were to tell you the plot of the piece, in detail, you would feel that the only honorable thing for you to do would be to marry me,” she wrote, along with, “Miss Dorothy Mackaye’s best moments were those when she was off stage.” When Broadway had 80 theaters and more than 200 shows opened annually, Dorothy Parker was the only female critic. Beginning in 1918 with Vanity Fair when she was 24, Parker dished up devastating and groundbreaking reviews of the Barrymores, George M. Cohan, W.C. Fields, Eugene O’Neill and the Ziegfeld Follies.

Join Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, editor of Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923, the first full collection of Parker’s theater reviews. He’s president of the Dorothy Parker Society and will host a free talk, reading and speakeasy-style toast to the pioneering critic and writer. Free cocktails supplied by the New York Distilling Company, makers of Dorothy Parker American Gin. See Broadway’s past through the eyes of one of New York’s greatest observers, the inimitable Dorothy Parker.

March is National Women’s History Month; celebrate this historic Broadway pioneer.











When: Thu., Mar. 26, 2015 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: Drama Book Shop
250 W. 40th St.
212-944-0595
Price: Free
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Toast the woman who was the talk of the town in the Roaring Twenties, Dorothy Parker. “If I were to tell you the plot of the piece, in detail, you would feel that the only honorable thing for you to do would be to marry me,” she wrote, along with, “Miss Dorothy Mackaye’s best moments were those when she was off stage.” When Broadway had 80 theaters and more than 200 shows opened annually, Dorothy Parker was the only female critic. Beginning in 1918 with Vanity Fair when she was 24, Parker dished up devastating and groundbreaking reviews of the Barrymores, George M. Cohan, W.C. Fields, Eugene O’Neill and the Ziegfeld Follies.

Join Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, editor of Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923, the first full collection of Parker’s theater reviews. He’s president of the Dorothy Parker Society and will host a free talk, reading and speakeasy-style toast to the pioneering critic and writer. Free cocktails supplied by the New York Distilling Company, makers of Dorothy Parker American Gin. See Broadway’s past through the eyes of one of New York’s greatest observers, the inimitable Dorothy Parker.

March is National Women’s History Month; celebrate this historic Broadway pioneer.

Buy tickets/get more info now