John Lahr
John Lahr
John Henry Lahris a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine. His books include Joy Rideand Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh...
drama past thinking
In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.
science silence research
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
goodbye sweet dark
In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.
magic theatre literature
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
sports new-york team
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
spiritual white america
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
play theatre want
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
gone selling broke
Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.
generations talent british
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
business crazy people
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
drama angel glasses
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.
dames comedy inspired
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
summer sweet heart
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
theatre arses
The only thing I get from the theatre is a sore arse.