Author: John Lahr

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 ...

A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario ...

John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright,...

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights  “Lahr’s cog...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION The definitive biography of America’s most impassioned and lyrical twentieth-century p...

A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York’s senior drama critic emeritus and the author o...