John Lahr News

ABSTRACT: THE THEATRE review of a revival of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger." John Osborne's rowdy, shocking anger was his trademark, his gift, and his epitaph.

ABSTRACT: THE THEATRE review of "Wit" and "Yosemite." "Wit," which is about a starchy, punctilious English professor who is dying of cancer, takes the audience on a journey toward an understanding of grace.

ABSTRACT: THE THEATRE review of "Richard III," at BAM. Shakespeare knew the value of the sensational: ghosts, gore, and grievous bodily harm were all grist for his melodramatic mill.

In fact, going further I would say: A nation in decline and as lost as America is needs all the GPS-wielding artists it can summon.