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

“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

Dimon needed to get to his own company’s cocktail party at the nearby Kirchner Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

He said the most recent time they ran into each other was more than 10 years ago, at a cocktail party.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025

And at leisure—a weekend guest in Connecticut; at a cocktail party in Bel Air.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez