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

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

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American mus…

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- John Lahr