Geoff what play did you see? There's a wonderful one-woman-show called "One foot in Scarsdale"
about the inimitable Ms. Parker, which I'd recommend.

This was a locally written play entitled "Vitriol and Violets." It presented some of the Algonquin group's collective history without focusing on any one. I found it to be very amusing, but, considering the material they had to work with, how could they have missed!