John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine. Read full biography of John Lahr →
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my... →
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is... →
In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National... →
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum... →
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut... →
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to... →
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the... →
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the... →
John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine.