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Arthur Miller - American Witness by John Lahr
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentiet ...Show more
Joy Ride : Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
Category: Film & Tv
'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, ...Show more
Joy Ride - Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
Category: Film & Tv
'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, ...Show more
Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows by John Lahr
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols, and August Wilson. Lahr takes us to the cabin in the woods that Arthur Miller built in order to write Death ...Show more
Notes on a Cowardly Lion - The Biography of Bert Lahr by John Lahr
Category: Biography Memoir
John Lahr's stunning and complex biography of his father, the legendary actor and comedian Bert Lahr Notes on a Cowardly Lion is John Lahr's masterwork: an all-encompassing biography of his father, the comedian and performer Bert Lahr. Best known as the Cowardly Lion in MGM's classic The Wizard of Oz, L ...Show more
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
Category: Biography Memoir
John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. 'I have high hopes of dying ...Show more
Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles by John Lahr
Category: Biography Memoir
From David Mamet to Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra to Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr to Eddie Izzard, The New Yorker's resident drama critic John Lahr has had unparalleled access to the most elusive, compelling and irresistible public personas of our time. In Show and Tell, Lahr - 'the most intelligent and i ...Show more
Tennessee Williams by John Lahr
Category: Biography
John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched b ...Show more
Tennessee Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
Category: Biography
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway ...Show more
Tennessee Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
Category: Biography
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway ...Show more
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