cocktail party

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Long-running production “The Willows” is set to wrap in early April, and “Monster Party,” a period piece that takes guests to a devilishly extravagant cocktail party, is re-launching in mid-April.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Bruno, dressed in pink and yellow, was at a Midcentury-themed cocktail party called Tickled Pink.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“He’s calm as a monk in a firefight,” Craig Renaud says, “but a cocktail party in Brooklyn is absolutely terrifying.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

On Wednesday night, at a cocktail party, Scaramucci said it looked like he had been proven right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

At a cocktail party one of his colleagues had finally explained to him the reason for the laughter and whispering that were disrupting his previously respectful classes.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole