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27 produkter
Arthur Miller
American Witness
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2024
171 kr
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A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights “Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the life from which it emerges.”—Willard …
Tennessee Williams
Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2015
458 kr
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John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply …
Coward The Playwright
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 1982
431 kr
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A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noel Coward's plays "Noel Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr's purpose in this book to …
Coward the Playwright
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2002
709 kr
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In five dexterously argued chapters, John Lahr investigates all the major plays and many of Noel Coward's lesser-known pieces. Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Design for Living, for instance, make a fascinating group of "Comedies of Bad Manners." Blithe Spirit and Relative Values raise the "Ghost in …
Show and Tell
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2002
215 kr
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From David Mamet to Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra to Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr to Eddie Izzard, The New Yorker's resident drama critic, John Lahr has had unparalleled access to the most elusive, compelling and irresistible public personas of our time. In SHOW AND TELL, Lahr - 'the most intelligent …
Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
Häftad, 2002
252 kr
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A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created "Oh Calcutta". He was a notorious eccentric, a louche sophisticate: connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. Where else could you …
Diary of a Somebody
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 1989
127 kr
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Screenplay to John Lahr's successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton's life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on …
These Foolish Things
Mementos of a Life
Av John Lahr
Inbunden, 2027
326 kr
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The celebrated film director Mike Nichols remarked, “We shall never see John Lahr’s likes again. . . . He stands alone not only in The New Yorker but in theater criticism.” Son of the famed comedian Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, John Lahr has led a life that reads like a …
Coward The Playwright
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2014
466 kr
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A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr''s famous 1982 study of Noël Coward''s plays"Noël Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr''s purpose in this book …
Tennessee Williams
Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2015
221 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONThe definitive biography of America’s most impassioned and lyrical twentieth-century playwright from acclaimed theatre critic John Lahr'A masterpiece about a genius' Helen Mirren'Riveting ... masterful' Sunday Times, Books of the YearOn 31 …
Tennessee Williams
Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2014
247 kr
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On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie . Tennessee Williams, the show''s thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, ''like a farm boy in his Sunday best''. The …
Joy Ride
Lives of the Theatricals
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2015
254 kr
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A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York''s senior drama critic emeritus and the author of Tennessee Williams ''By far the best thing about my stuff I''ve ever read'' Arthur Miller ''Luminous with insight and love for every aspect of the …
Joy Ride
Lives of the Theatricals
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2016
273 kr
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A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York’s senior drama critic emeritus and the author of Tennessee Williams'By far the best thing about my stuff I’ve ever read' Arthur Miller'Luminous with insight and love for every aspect of the act of …
Notes on a Cowardly Lion
The Biography of Bert Lahr
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2013
152 kr
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John Lahr’s stunning and complex biography of his father, the legendary actor and comedian Bert Lahr Notes on a Cowardly Lion is John Lahr’s masterwork: an all-encompassing biography of his father, the comedian and performer Bert Lahr. Best known as the Cowardly Lion in MGM’s classic The Wizard of …
Prick Up Your Ears
The Biography of Joe Orton
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2013
154 kr
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This mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton''s brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick WhiteTold with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe …
Autograph Hound
A Novel
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2013
68 kr
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Hailed as a “tour de force” by the New York Times , this irresistible novel captures John Lahr’s madcap genius Meet Benny Walsh: busboy at the Homestead restaurant in New York City by day, compulsive autograph hunter by night. Known for going to extraordinary lengths for a much-coveted signature, …
Coward The Playwright
Av John Lahr
E-bok, 2014
456 kr
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A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr''s famous 1982 study of Noël Coward''s plays"Noël Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr''s purpose in this book …
Tennessee Williams
Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Av John Lahr
Ljudbok, 2014
712 kr
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The definitive biography of America''s greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker . John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his …
Razzle Dazzle 'Em
New Yorker Profiles of Show-Biz Legends
Av John Lahr
Inbunden, 2025
340 kr
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In Razzle Dazzle ‘Em, John Lahr, the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker for 21 years and a multi-award-winning biographer, captures the essence of some of Hollywood’s most influential actors and directors. This compelling collection of pen portraits offers a rare glimpse into the minds of those …
Arthur Miller
American Witness
Av John Lahr
Ljudbok, 2022
298 kr
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A distinguished theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915–2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentieth-century …
Orton Diaries
Av Joe Orton, Joe Orton m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
221 kr
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"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane …
Joy Ride
Show People and Their Shows
Av John Lahr
Inbunden, 2015
261 kr
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Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols, and August Wilson. Lahr takes us to the cabin in the woods that Arthur Miller built in order to write …
Joy Ride
Show People and Their Shows
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2016
181 kr
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Since 1992 John Lahr has written for The New Yorker, where for twenty-one years he was the senior drama critic, the longest stint in that post in the magazine's history. Joy Ride is a collection of his profiles and reviews that throws open the stage door, taking us behind the scenes both on and off …
Prick Up Your Ears
The Biography of Joe Orton
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 2002
152 kr
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John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both 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 his tragic and untimely death. 'I have high hopes of …
Where I Live
Selected Essays
Av Tennessee Williams, John Lahr
Häftad, 1978
202 kr
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For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York Times, to be published just prior to opening—something to whet the theatergoers’ appetites and to get the critics thinking. Many of these were collected in the 1978 volume Where I Live, which is now …
