<B>The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York</B><BR><BR> One of Literature Â's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen <I>The Ladies of the Corridor</I>, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on ParkerÂ's life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud dÂ'Usseau, <I>The Ladies of the Corridor</I> exposes the limitations of a womanÂ's life in a drama teeming with ParkerÂ's signature wit.