Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experienc… - John Lahr
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experienc…
- John Lahr
The history of theatre is the history of first nights. - John Lahr
The history of theatre is the history of first nights.
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about … - John Lahr
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about …
Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American mus… - John Lahr
Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American mus…
We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people … - John Lahr
We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people …
Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; ha… - John Lahr
Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; ha…
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen. - John Lahr
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we… - John Lahr
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we…
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from th… - John Lahr
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from th…
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