Dorothy Parker News

A March 14th concert at Weill Recital Hall will feature songs by Ricky Ian Gordon and Jake Heggie

This April, Ghostlight Records will record Ricky Ian Gordon's song cycle Orpheus and Euridice

Café Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel, Madison Avenue at 76th Street), will present legendary concert artist Barbara Cook in a five-week engagement beginning March 1.

Karen Mason, Amanda Green, Barbara Brussell and Maude Maggart will comprise the line-up for February's Any Wednesday series at Tower Records

he Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts will kick off with a symposium to discuss Harold Clurman, his effect on American theater, culture and the lives and work of panelists Zoe Caldwell, Roy Scheider, David Amram, Elaine Stritch and Grace Schulman.

NORA, legendary film director Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play, A Doll's House, is coming to Manhattan for the first time in its 25-year history.

Mike Leigh's play Abigail's Party, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, has extended an extra four weeks, through February 1st, in its New Group production

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Harriet Harris, Frances Conroy and Lisa Banes will headline This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a benefit for The Acting Company held in LA on December 5th

Karen Mason will bring her new cabaret show The Sweetest of Nights, based on her recent CD, to The Encore on October 27th; it will run through November 7th

Mamma Mia! star and MAC Award-winner Karen Mason will perform at the Encore from October 27th through November 7th

Ricky Ian Gordon's musical theatre/opera/dance piece Orpheus and Euridice will premiere at the Frederick P. Rose Hall on October 5th, 7th and 8th

BMI , in conjunction with Musical Mondays Theatre Lab and the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will host a reading of the award-winning musical War Brides on Tuesday, September 27 at 2:30pm.

The Peccadillo Theatre Company brings back their outstanding production of Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau's comedy/drama

Karen Mason Plays the Enigmatic Dorothy Parker in Norman Mathews' Musical, You Might As Well Live at The New York Musical Theatre Festival

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy and others will headline a staged reading of This is Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker in LA on October 10th; the reading will benefit The Acting Company

Karen Mason will play legendary Algonquin Round Table wit Dorothy Parker in You Might As Well Live, which will run from September 22nd to October 2nd as part of the New York Music Theatre Festival

Jennifer Jason Leigh will star in the New Group's November staging of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party

The Food for Thought series of play readings will move from the National Arts Club to The Players Club for its new season, which will kick off with readings of Odets and Parker plays

Mark Campbell's theatrical song cycle features sharp, witty lyrics and lots of bedsheets

The New York Musical Theatre Festival has chosen 18 new shows for its 2005 programming