Julie Halston to Star in 'Finding Dorothy Parker' Revue at Laurie Beechman Theater

Julie Halston says she identifies with Dorothy Parker and will star in Finding Dorothy Parker, a revue of Parker’s work compiled and directed by Douglas Carter Beane, with Ann Harada, Jackie Hoffman and Anika Larsen joining Halston. The show runs Jan. 15 through 22 at the Laurie Beechman Theater.

Parker, who died in 1967, was a drama critic for Vanity Fair and one of the earliest contributors to The New Yorker; she was a frequent attendee, and one of the few women, at the Algonquin Round Table, a regular informal luncheon of writers and journalists that began in 1919. “Dorothy does remind me of myself,” Halston said.

“I always think of her sitting at the Round Table with all those guys and being wittier, more trenchant and more fearless. I’ve been in situations like that and of course the guys had more agency and more power, and I was funnier and smarter. Better but not bitter — but not silent.” Halston’s television role as Bitsy von Muffling in And Just Like That … is over, but she will play a billionaire on Ryan Murphy’s new series, The Beauty, out Jan.

21 on FX and Hulu. In May she will take Virtual Halston, her lockdown streaming show, to Birdland.

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