John Lahr

...you rarely see on TV or film, or even in theatre. JC: It's much more ambitious, in a sense. AVC: I saw the New Yorker critic John Lahr speak before a production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw, and one of the actors was complaining...

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...outstripped him as a writer. What makes the play something more than a disturbingly rancid romance? The script, inspired by John Lahr's Orton biography and the playwright's diaries, channels the mordant humour of Orton's work. Halliwell...

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...routines, like a variety double act. Yet director Daniel Kramer can't stop that wearing thin, and Simon Bent's script (drawing on John Lahr's biography and Orton's diaries) disappointingly offers character development-by-numbers. Andrew...

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...Chris New as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears. Photograph: Tristram Kenton This title has seen a lot of service. It was first used by John Lahr for his biography of Joe Orton, and then adopted by Alan Bennett for a movie. Now it is dredged...

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...and then killing himself with 22 Nembutals washed down with grapefruit juice. The story has been well told in a fine biography by John Lahr, and a Stephen Frears movie scripted by Alan Bennett. Now it comes to the stage as a new play by...

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...but the play in general. Simon Bent's drama about the profitable, then poisonous relationship between Orton and his mentor is based on John Lahr's biography of the same name, which became a movie with a complex and witty script by Alan...

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...of Aids. Orton was outrageously promiscuous and took the most dangerous sexual risks. This new play by Simon Bent is based on John Lahr s biography of Orton and also on the playwright s diaries. The play is a gripping study of the poison...

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John Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine. Born in Los Angeles , California, Lahr holds a B.A. from Yale...

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...stories are darker than his own, which ended with his death at the hands of his companion, Kenneth Halliwell. Here, in an adaptation of John Lahr's biography, Matt Lucas plays the unfortunate Halliwell under Daniel Kramer's direction.

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...his whole adult life immersed in the world of art, both as a critic and, once upon a time, as a practitioner. Fellow hyphenate John Lahr, who writes about theater for the New Yorker, is another critic-practitioner, one with a short but...

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