A Theatrical Feast in New York:
Find out where the British stars are wined and dined in New York after playing on Broadway. What’s in and what’s out or what’s closed.
From the pen of Elizabeth Sharland – following her recent novel The Best Actress about a British actress who wins an Academy Award – comes the sequel to her non-fiction book A Theatrical Feast – Sugar and Spice in London’s Theatreland, with the feast this time being in New York. A Theatrical Feast in New York will appeal not only to thespians but also to visitors planning a trip to Manhattan who might like to follow in the footsteps of legendary British personalities.
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In
New York the tradition of post-curtain dinners is an established part
of theatre-going. This book is an anecdotal historical companion to legendary
theatre people and their favourite places to eat.It brings together theatrical
and culinary stories linked with some of New York’s oldest 
and
most famous restaurants, such as the Cafe des Artistes, the Algonquin,
Sardi’s, and the Waldorf. The Cafe des Artistes sumptuous duplexes had
only tiny pullman kitchens. Its famed tenants – who included Noel Coward,
Isadora Duncan and Rudolf Valentino – bought
their own raw ingredients, sent them down to the kitchen, and the kitchen
then sent dinners
upstairs on dumbwaiters precisely at the time requested. For over fifty
years, the Algonquin has been favoured by British actors on tour – among
them Gertrude Lawrence,
John Gielgud and Peter Ustinov while
American Orson Welles spent his honeymoon there. At
Sardi’s, Laurence Olivier dined with Noel Coward, after a show,
to tell him his marriage to Vivien Leigh was over. This book is truly
a vibrant mix of anecdote
and entertainment.
Curtain
Call
Patrick Newley
THE STAGE
9 September 2004
Once a personal assistant to Yul Brynner, playwright and lecturer Elizabeth Sharland has published several successful books about British theatre. Now she turns her hand to Broadway, that sparkling thoroughfare in New York known as the Great White Way.
Called the Street of the Midnight Sun by ‘Diamond’ Jim Brady and immortalised by writers such as Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon as the Hardened Artery or Main Stem - Broadway is the embodiment of the history of live entertainment in America.
In Sharland’s A Theatrical Feast in New York (Sutton Publishing) she writes about the NY theatre scene and how food - along with art deco skyscrapers, yellow cabs and art galleries - has literally and figuratively sustained the theatre industry and its most famous stars.
Theatrical
New York
Friday August 27, 2004
Elizabeth
Sharland's A Theatrical Feast in New York is a fascinating guide to the
eateries and drinking places of New York. Miss Sharland has already written
a guide to London's theatrical watering holes and dining establishments,
and now she reprises her research on the other side of the Atlantic.
Mind you, the fact that she personally has a glamorous trans-Atlantic lifestyle, dividing her time between apartments in New York, London and Palm Beach, gives her an advantage over many other travel writers. As does the fact that she has worked - as actress, writer producer and, on The King and I, as assistant to the legendary Yul Brynner - in theatre in England and the United States.