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John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at The New Yorker. He has written more than twenty books related to theater. Lahr has been called "one of the greatest biographers writing today".
Introduction. ‘John Lahr treats his subject with clarity and charity. His cogent analyses are revelatory but not surgical, and his sympathy never cloys. He does what a good literary biographer must do: He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the life from which it emerges.
Nov 1, 2022 · Hardcover – November 1, 2022. by John Lahr (Author) 4.3 31 ratings. Part of: Jewish Lives (68 books) See all formats and editions. A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. “Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . .
- John Lahr
BIOGRAPHY - John Lahr - writer, critic, theatre reviewer, novelist, show business profiles. Read about John Lahr’s recently published biography of Tennessee Williams, Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, here. DAME EDNA EVERAGE US: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992; current paperback, University of California Press, 2000.
John Lahr is a staff writer and has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1991. A veteran of all aspects of the theatre, Lahr has contributed behind-the-scenes portraits, reviews, and...
Nov 12, 2012 · After twenty years as The New Yorker’s chief theatre critic, John Lahr will give up regular reviewing to focus on the Profiles he also contributes to the magazine, as well as on book...
Nov 7, 2022 · John Lahr on the actress and screenwriter—who has appeared in such movies as “Love Actually,” “Sense and Sensibility,” and “Nanny McPhee”—taking on a musical adaptation of the latter.
