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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".
John Lahr, the longtime drama critic for the New Yorker, knows his way around Broadway better than anyone. He is a witty and elegant stylist, a scrupulous researcher, a passionate yet canny advocate…
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 · Lahr joined The New Yorker in 1992, and, over the past two decades, he has written around a million published words for the magazine. Lahr comes from a family of performers: his mother...
John Lahr reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton in another extraordinary biography that was chosen Book of the Year by the Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White when it first appeared in 1978
John Lahr’s first collection brings together two years of his writing on Evergreen Review, which earned him the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism—the youngest critic ever to be awarded the prize.
Sep 18, 2014 · John Lahr: By the Book. Share full article. John Lahr Illustration by Jillian Tamaki. Sept. 18, 2014. The author of “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” is not a fan of...
Dec 3, 2015 · To John Lahr, joy in the theater is as much about artistic ambition and intellectual rigor as it is about simple happiness. The word infuses “Joy Ride,” his collection of profiles and reviews...
John Lahr is the author of 15 books. Among them are his bestselling biographies of his father, Bert Lahr ( Notes on a Cowardly Lion) and the playwright Joe Orton ( Prick Up Your Ears, which was made into a feature film).
Jan 12, 2023 · John Lahr’s biography of Arthur Miller opens with a riveting chapter on the creation and the electric 1949 debut of the playwright’s masterwork, “Death of a Salesman.” Lahr calls the...
