Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. John Lahr advertisecallcrazy Change image and share on social
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah. John Lahr areaattendanceaward share on social
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own. John Lahr agercapitacivilization share on social
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together. John Lahr attendancebroadwaydraw Change image and share on social
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. John Lahr britishgenerationnina Change image and share on social
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. John Lahr ageamericancar Change image and share on social
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. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot. John Lahr beckettbertbill share on social
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 authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one. John Lahr authoritativeimperfectlife share on social
Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public. John Lahr americanbreakescape Change image and share on social
Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt. John Lahr audiencecomplicatediscovery share on social