Prick Up Your Ears: Biography Of Joe Orton

By John Lahr

This text reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused h...

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography Of Joe Orton

By John Lahr

The Autograph Hound

By John Lahr, (By) JohnLahr

Hailed as a "tour de force" by the New York Times , this irresistible novel captures John Lahr's madcap geniusMeet Benny busboy at the Homestead restaurant in New York City by day, compulsive autog...

Show And Tell

By John Lahr

Notes On A Cowardly Lion

By John Lahr

Dame Edna Everage And The Rise Of Western Civilization: Backstage With Barry Humphries

By John Lahr

John Lahr is one of the most celebrated critics of the performing arts. Winner of Britain's 1992 Roger Machell Award for the best writing about public performance, Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of...

Sinatra:: The Artist And The Man

By John Lahr

I am a symmetrical man, almost to a fault, Frank Sinatra once said. It is a peculiar statement, because Sinatra is precisely asymmetrical. How to reconcile the enchanting crooner and the explosive...

Prick Up Your Earsl The Biography Of Joe Orton

By John Lahr

"'I have high hopes of dying in my prime," Joe Orton confided to his diary in July, 1967. Less than one month later, Britain's most promising comic playwright was murdered by his homosexual lover i...

Coward The Playwright

By John Lahr

Light Fantastic: Adventures In Theatre

By John Lahr, Gerald N. Wachs Collection Of Tom Stoppard

A timeless collection of essays about the theatre  by the celebrated biographer and drama critic at  The New Yorker. Theatre criticism,  writes John Lahr in his introduction to  Light Fantastic,...