A review of jazz-age wisecracker, incisive author, and hopeful cynic Dorothy Parker: her quips, poetry, book and theater reviews, and three short stories adapted to play form. The theme of relationships -- young and old, naive and jaded, eager and desperate -- runs throughout the piece, making it a fitting way to spend Valentine's Day, and every day.
. . . I must go on, till ends my rope,
Who from my birth was cursed with hope.
- Dorothy Parker
Equity Approved Showcase
Comps available to AEA members on a standby basis.
e-mail contact: dorothyparkeronstage@earthlink.net
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Preview: 02/11/2009 Open: 02/12/2009 Close: 02/15/2009 |
Theater: Producers Club Theatres Address: 358 W 44th Street New York, NY 10036 |
Cost:$15.00 or Call: Box Office at (212) 787-0591 |
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Lida McGirr began her acting career as a 7- year-old singing and dancing leprechaun at Nathan's on Coney Island. She spent her early twenties as one of three start-up members of the Little Theater on 26th Street before moving to Boston. Since then, she's won the 2004 EMACT DASH Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, appeared as Dean Kenny in the Elliot Norton Award-winning Spinning Into Butter, and received rave reviews for her portrayal of Shirley Valentine at the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham. She has directed a short opera protesting the cancellation of Saturday's at the Met, productions for libraries and private functions, as well as many local community theater productions including TCAN's award-winning A Piece of My Heart nominated for four EMACT DASH Awards. Her short plays have been performed in festivals, retirement centers, a romance novelist convention, a bakery, and board meetings throughout New England. Special thanks to my special daughter. |
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*Member of Actors' Equity Association George Pappas has worked with many theatre companies in New York and Los Angeles, appearing in productions of original and well-known plays. Favorites include I Never Sang For My Father (GRT, L.A.), Who Lives? (24th St. Theatre, L.A.), Six Degrees of Separation (Schreiber Studio, NY), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Queens Theatre-in-the-Park, NY) and Inventing Color (NY Fringe Festival). George has been featured in many short films and on most daytime TV series, and will soon be seen in the new NBC series, Kings. |
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Caitlin McEwan is thrilled to be speaking the words of the brilliantly problematic Mrs. Parker. Many thanks to Lida and the cast and crew for making this happen! Caitlin has performed in regional theater and other, even quirkier endeavors all over the country: at the Kennedy Center, the Surf Ballroom, TriArts, Ancram Opera House, The Next Stage, and Weathervane Repertory Theatre. She also played Laura in The Glass Menagerie for the Amazing Theater Company, with Lida as her mother Amanda. She recently starred in the music video “Single Drop of You.” Caitlin majored in English at Yale, and studied acting with the wonderful Suzanne Esper at the William Esper Studio. www.caitlinmcewan.com |
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Andy Junk is thrilled to be making his New York stage debut! He comes from Chicago where he was in "365 Plays/365 Days," "Spark," and "Vulnerable" among other plays. Most notably, he participated in the Chicago Sketchfest in the group "Carpeted Afterhours." That group also produced a TV pilot that was an Official Selection of the New York Television Festival. |
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*Member of Actors' Equity Association Maureen Kenny has worked extensively in New York as well as in British repertory theatre and London’s Fringe. At the American Shaw Festival she appeared in Overruled, The Millionairess, A Doll’s House, and An Inspector Calls. |