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Against Her Better Judgment: An Evening of Dorothy Parker

An imaginative staging of selected short stories and poems by Dorothy Parker, Against Her Better Judgment opens February 11th at the Drilling Company Theatre on 236 W 78th St in Manhattan and runs through Valentine's Day, February 14th.

Directed by Shannon MacMillan, Against Her Better Judgment features dynamic performances from an ensemble cast including Emily Asbury, Lee Chrisman, Meg Flaherty, Kristen Gehling, Levi Morger and Winston Osgood. Lighting and sound designed by Michael Lounsbery and costumes by Emily Dorwart.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a well-known American writer, theatre critic and poet, best known for her quick wit and sardonic humor. Parker wrote for such publications as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received two Academy Award Nominations for her screenwriting work.

A biting collage of couples and quips, Against Her Better Judgment lays bare a shameless self-portrait of the modern woman in love. Parker's acid wit and melancholy bring to the stage a series of sharp-tongued heroines--and the devastating men they call their own--who both create and confront their neuroses, navigating the tricky territories of romance with vicious humor, regret and more than the occasional cocktail.