John Lahr bibliography
A list of works by or about American theatre critic John Lahr.
Books
Biographies and profiles
- Lahr, John (1969). Notes on a cowardly lion : the biography of Bert Lahr. New York: Knopf.
- — (1978). Prick up your ears.[1]
- Coward the Playwright (1983)
- Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries (1991)
- Sinatra: The Artist and the Man (1997)
- Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles (2000)
- Honky Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People (2005)
- Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (2014)
As editor
- A Casebook on Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1971) (With Anthea Lahr)
- The Orton Diaries (Diaries of Joe Orton, 1986)
- The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001)
Collected criticism
- Up Against the Fourth Wall (1970)
- Acting Out America (1972)
- Astonish Me: Adventures in Contemporary Theater (1973)
- Life Show (1973, with Jonathan Price)
- Automatic Vaudeville (1984)
- Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre (1996)
- Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows (2015) (outside the US as Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals)
Novels
- The Autograph Hound (1972)
- Hot to Trot (1974)
Plays
- Diary of a Somebody (1989) (adapted from Joe Orton's diaries)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1993) (adapted from Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name)
Essays and reporting
- Lahr, John (November 24, 2008). "Land of Lost Souls". The Critics. Life and Letters. The New Yorker. 84 (38): 114–120. Retrieved 16 April 2009. David Rabe's America.
- — (November 15, 2010). "Angels on the Verge". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 86 (36). Retrieved 30 April 2012. (Subjects: Michael Greif directs Angels in America at the Peter Norton Space; Bartlett Sher directs a musical adaptation of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Belasco)
- — (March 14, 2011). "Losers Take All". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 62–64. Gregory Mosher directs Jason Miller's That Championship Season; Daniel Sullivan directs David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
- — (April 4, 2011). "God Squad". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (7): 76–77. Retrieved 7 October 2014. Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw direct The Book of Mormon at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
- — (November 7, 2011). "The Natural". Backstage Chronicles. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 31–37. Retrieved 28 March 2014. Nina Arianda.
- — (January 30, 2012). "Boldfaced Bard". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 68–70. Sam Mendes directs Richard III at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- — (February 13–20, 2012). "A Talent to Abuse". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (1): 118–119. Retrieved 2014-11-13. Sam Gold directs Look Back in Anger at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre.
- — (November 19, 2012). "Supersize". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 94–95. Retrieved 2014-11-04. James Lapine directs Annie at the Palace Theatre; Davis McCallum directs Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at Playwrights Horizons.
- — (November 26, 2012). "Unhappy Families". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (37): 84–85. Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (dir. Nicholas Martin, at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse) and David Henry Hwang's Golden Child (dir. Leigh Silverman at the Signature).
- — (February 25, 2013). "Songs of angry men". The Talk of the Town. Credit Due Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (2): 26–27. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
- — (March 31, 2014). "Joy ride : Susan Stroman puts 'Bullets over Broadway' on Broadway". Profiles. The New Yorker. 90 (6): 50–59.
- — (December 19–26, 2016). "Act of grace : Viola Davis aims to alter how African-Americans are seen". Profiles. The New Yorker. 92 (42): 52–64.[2]
- — "Squealing to Survive" (review of Clancy Sigal, Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos, Icon, 2018, ISBN 9781785784392; and Clancy Sigal, The London Lover: My Weekend That Lasted Thirty Years, Bloomsbury, 2018, ISBN 9781408885802), London Review of Books, vol. 40, no. 14 (19 July 2018), pp. 33–35.
Notes
- Biography of Joe Orton.
- Online version is titled "Viola Davis's call to adventure".
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