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The John Lahr bibliography is a list of the published works of John Lahr.

Contents

Biographies and profiles

  • Notes on a Cowardly Lion – The Biography of Bert Lahr (1969)
  • Prick Up Your Ears (Joe Orton, 1978)
  • 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's contributions to The New Yorker include:

  • 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. 

    • References

    John Lahr bibliography Wikipedia
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