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Tuesday Dec 1 | New Yorker

John Lahr: Kenneth Lonergana s Everyman.

ABSTRACT: THE THEATRE review of "The Starry Messenger." The writer compares Mark Williams , the lead character of Kenneth Lonergan's new play "The Starry Messenger", to a slow loris, an animal that survives in the jungle by playing dead.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr on the vibrator play

In our pornographic age, it's hard to imagine that there was a time when people were better acquainted with the continent of Africa than with their own bodies.

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Related Topix: Massage Therapy, Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Playbill

Prick Up Your Ears Posts Early Closing Notice in West End

The current West End production of Simon Bent's Prick Up Your Ears , inspired by the John Lahr biography of playwright Joe Orton and Orton's diaries, is to shutter Nov.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

The CEU Eagle Online

Dead Man's Cell Phone opens Nov. 5: Utah premiere held at College of Eastern Utah

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet caf. A stranger at the next table who has had enough.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr: Patrick Marber updates Strindberg.

Patrick Marber's "After Miss Julie" , a version of August Strindberg's gnarly, pathfinding 1888 tragedy about class division and desire, puts a new engine in an old chassis; the problem is internal combustion.

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Related Topix: Labour Party (UK), Conservatives (UK)

Fri Oct 23, 2009

The Wicked Stage

Lahr's Foote, and His Achilles Heel

I've had my issues with him in the past, but when John Lahr is on, no one can touch him.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Hartford Courant

New Yorker's John Lahr Writes About Horton Foote

There's a lovely piece today in this week's The New Yorker by fave theater writer John Lahr on Horton Foote .

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts

Tue Oct 13, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr: Nathan Lewis Jacksona s a oeBroke-ology.a

"Broke-ology" , by the talented thirty-yearold African-American playwright Nathan Lewis Jackson, belongs to the now familiar genre of family leave-takings. What Jackson lacks in poetry and in stagecraft he makes up for in compassion.

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New Yorker

John Lahr: A heroic a oeHamleta and musings on mortality.

At the finale of the last "Hamlet" to be seen in New York , Fortinbras called for a hero's cannonade to honor the slain Prince of Denmark - "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" - only to have his lieutenant whip out a pistol and shoot Horatio.

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Related Topix: Animation Movies, Short, Hamlet, Music!, Thriller, Crime Movies, Family, Drama Movies, Othello, London, Documentary Movies

Mon Sep 14, 2009

UTV

Theatre preview: Prick Up Your Ears, Brighton, London

An intriguing piece of casting for the new production of Prick Up Your Ears - written by Simon Bent and based on the diaries of Joe Orton and the John Lahr biography of the same name - which makes its way to the capital following its Brighton run.

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Mon Aug 31, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr: Jez Butterwortha s a oeJerusalem.a

Jez Butterworth's "Jerusalem," the hit of London's summer theatre season - which just closed at the Royal Court and which will probably be coming soon to a repertory theatre near you - is exceptional for one rabble-rousing, reckless character: Johnny Byron, the Sir Epicure Mammon of modern misrule, a swashbuckling waster and mythomaniac who is ...

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Related Topix: Death Penalty

Mon Jun 29, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

Elaine Stritch and John Lahr In Legal Action Over 'at Liberty'

The New York Post reports that famed critic and New Yorker scribe John Lahr has filed legal action against legendary Broadway star Elaine Stritch, for the work he did with her on the 2003 Tony Award-winning show, Elaine Stritch: AT LIBERTY.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, September, Comedy Movies, Monster-in-Law, Elaine Stritch

Sun Jun 28, 2009

New York Post

Critic Sues for Stritch Rewards

A star of the Great White Way is a great big cheat, claims a distinguished drama critic.

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Related Topix: Elaine Stritch, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Comedy, 30 Rock, Animation Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Family, The Wizard of Oz, Adventure, Musical Movies

Mon May 25, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr: a oeEveryday Rapture,a at Second Stage.

"one of Broadway's biggest, brightest semi-stars," she smiles with cold teeth - has co-written, with Dick Scanlan, the excellent, well-titled "Everyday Rapture" . Scott expertly conveys the internal spiritual drama of an attractive, talented Midwestern Mennonite struggling to reconcile her upbringing with Broadway's Destiny of Me.

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New Yorker

John Lahr: Wallace Shawna s shaggy-cat story.

London's Royal Court Theatre has made this spring a Wallace Shawn season. In addition to showing Shawn's cult movies "My Dinner with Andre" and "Vanya on 42nd Street" , the theatre has staged his 1990 one-man show, "The Fever" , his 1985 play "Aunt Dan and Lemon," and Shawn's first new play in more than a decade, "Grasses of a Thousand Colors," in ...

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, My Dinner with Andre, Vanya on 42nd Street, Wallace Shawn

Sun May 24, 2009

Buffalo News

Editor's Choice : Books & Literature

Kazan on Directing, foreword by John Lahr, preface by Martin Scorsese, edited and with an introduction by Robert Cornfield, Knopf, 342 pages "The first auteur of the American theater" John Lahr calls Elia Kazan in the foreword to this book, "the first director to insist on having control of the entire production, the first to be billed above the ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, On the Waterfront, Theater, Entertainment

Mon May 18, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr: A black a oeDeath of a Salesman.a

"To mount an all-black production of a 'Death of a Salesman' or any other play conceived for white actors as an investigation of the human condition through the specifics of white culture is to deny us our own humanity, our own history, and the need to make our own investigations from the cultural ground on which we stand as black Americans," ...

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Related Topix: African-American, World News, Togo,

Fri May 15, 2009

Advocate

Honest Arthur

With his latest production of West Side Story currently on Broadway and a new memoir just published, legendary writer-producer Arthur Laurents tells his good friend Charles Kaiser why he's never been able to tell a lie and why that sometimes gets him into trouble.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Way We Were, Musical Movies

Wed May 13, 2009

Conversational Reading

Something For Nothing

John Lahr has a nice piece in The New Yorker on the current Broadway performance of Waiting for Godot : As Pozzo, the sadistic master who controls Lucky with a whip and a long rope, John Goodman is a huge, startling figure.

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Tue May 12, 2009

New Yorker

John Lahr on a oeWaiting for Godota

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," billed as "the laugh sensation of two continents," made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956.

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Related Topix: Waiting for Godot, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Miami, FL, Miami Metro, Hunter College, City University of New York

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