I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
The history of theatre is the history of first nights. - 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
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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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