John Lahr bibliography

A list of works by or about American theatre critic John Lahr.

Books

Biographies and profiles

• Lahr, John (1969). Notes on a cowardly lion : the biography of Bert Lahr. New York: Knopf.
• — (1978). Prick up your ears.[1]
• Coward the Playwright (1983)
• Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries (1991)
• Sinatra: The Artist and the Man (1997)
• Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles (2000)
• Honky Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People (2005)
• Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (2014)

As editor

• A Casebook on Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1971) (With Anthea Lahr)
• The Orton Diaries (Diaries of Joe Orton, 1986)
• The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001)

Collected criticism

• Up Against the Fourth Wall (1970)
• Acting Out America (1972)
• Astonish Me: Adventures in Contemporary Theater (1973)
• Life Show (1973, with Jonathan Price)
• Automatic Vaudeville (1984)
• Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre (1996)
• Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows (2015) (outside the US as Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals)

Novels

• The Autograph Hound (1972)
• Hot to Trot (1974)

Plays

• Diary of a Somebody (1989) (adapted from Joe Orton's diaries)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1993) (adapted from Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name)

Essays and reporting

• Lahr, John (November 24, 2008). "Land of Lost Souls". The Critics. Life and Letters. The New Yorker. 84 (38): 114–120. Retrieved 16 April 2009. David Rabe's America.
• — (November 15, 2010). "Angels on the Verge". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 86 (36). Retrieved 30 April 2012. (Subjects: Michael Greif directs Angels in America at the Peter Norton Space; Bartlett Sher directs a musical adaptation of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Belasco)
• — (March 14, 2011). "Losers Take All". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 62–64. Gregory Mosher directs Jason Miller's That Championship Season; Daniel Sullivan directs David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
• — (April 4, 2011). "God Squad". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (7): 76–77. Retrieved 7 October 2014. Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw direct The Book of Mormon at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
• — (November 7, 2011). "The Natural". Backstage Chronicles. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 31–37. Retrieved 28 March 2014. Nina Arianda.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Boldfaced Bard". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 68–70. Sam Mendes directs Richard III at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
• — (February 13–20, 2012). "A Talent to Abuse". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (1): 118–119. Retrieved 2014-11-13. Sam Gold directs Look Back in Anger at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre.
• — (November 19, 2012). "Supersize". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 94–95. Retrieved 2014-11-04. James Lapine directs Annie at the Palace Theatre; Davis McCallum directs Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at Playwrights Horizons.
• — (November 26, 2012). "Unhappy Families". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (37): 84–85. Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (dir. Nicholas Martin, at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse) and David Henry Hwang's Golden Child (dir. Leigh Silverman at the Signature).
• — (February 25, 2013). "Songs of angry men". The Talk of the Town. Credit Due Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (2): 26–27. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
• — (March 31, 2014). "Joy ride : Susan Stroman puts 'Bullets over Broadway' on Broadway". Profiles. The New Yorker. 90 (6): 50–59.
• — (December 19–26, 2016). "Act of grace : Viola Davis aims to alter how African-Americans are seen". Profiles. The New Yorker. 92 (42): 52–64.[2]
• — "Squealing to Survive" (review of Clancy Sigal, Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos, Icon, 2018, ISBN 9781785784392; and Clancy Sigal, The London Lover: My Weekend That Lasted Thirty Years, Bloomsbury, 2018, ISBN 9781408885802), London Review of Books, vol. 40, no. 14 (19 July 2018), pp. 33–35.

Notes

1. Biography of Joe Orton.
2. Online version is titled "Viola Davis's call to adventure".