Dorothy Parker

<p style=text-align: justify;><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;>Dorothy Parker holds a place in history as one of New York’s most beloved writers. Now for the first time in nearly a century the public is invited to enjoy Mrs. Parker’s sharp wit and biting commentary on the Jazz Age hits and flops in this first-ever published collection of her groundbreaking Broadway reviews.<br /></span><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;><br />Starting when she was twenty-four at Vanity Fair as New York’s only female theatre critic Mrs. Parker reviewed some of the biggest names of the era: the Barrymores George M. Cohan W.C. Fields Helen Hayes Al Jolson Eugene O’Neil Will Rogers and the Ziegfeld Follies. Her words of praise—and contempt—for the dramas comedies musicals and revues are just as fresh and funny today as they were in the age of speakeasies and bathtub gin. Annotated with a notes section by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick president of the Dorothy Parker Society the volume shares Parker’s outspoken opinions of a great era of live theatre in America from a time before radio talking pictures and television decimated attendance.</span></p> <p style=text-align: justify;><span style=font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;>Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway 1918–1923 provides a fascinating glimpse of Broadway in its Golden Era and literary life in New York through the eyes of a renowned theatre critic.</span></p>