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John Lahr
John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at The New Yorker. He has written more than twenty books related to theater, including Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, and won many awards for his work.
John Henry Lahr was born on July 12, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Mildred "Millie" Schroeder, a Ziegfeld girl, and Bert Lahr, an actor and comedian most famous for portraying the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.
Until his father was on the cover of Time magazine when Lahr was in grade school, he did not know what he did for a living. Lahr later wrote: "On stage, Dad was sensational; in private he was sensationally taciturn: a brooding absent presence, to be encountered mostly in his bedroom chair at his desk, turned away from us...". However, Lahr did spend a lot of time with his father at theaters playing with props and costumes. His childhood was also filled with access to Hollywood and Vaudeville celebrities who were his father's friends, such as Eddie Foy Jr., Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx, and Ethel Merman.
When his father left movies for the stage, the family moved from their home in Coldwater Canyon to Manhattan.
Lahr received a B.A. from Yale University. While there, he was a member of the literary fraternity of St. Anthony Hall and was an editor of the Yale Daily News. He also has a master's degree from Worcester College, Oxford University.
Lahr started his career managing theaters. In 1968, he was a literary adviser to the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was an advisor to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Manhattan, New York from 1969 to 1971. He also was a literary consultant for the Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater in the 1970s.
He has adapted several books for the stage; these plays were performed at the Royal National Theatre in London, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Royal Exchange in Manchester, and in the West End of London.
In 2002, he co-wrote Elaine Stritch's one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty. He and Stritch won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for the show. However, Lahr sued Strich, claiming she "cheated him of profits" from the play.
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John Lahr
John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at The New Yorker. He has written more than twenty books related to theater, including Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, and won many awards for his work.
John Henry Lahr was born on July 12, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Mildred "Millie" Schroeder, a Ziegfeld girl, and Bert Lahr, an actor and comedian most famous for portraying the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.
Until his father was on the cover of Time magazine when Lahr was in grade school, he did not know what he did for a living. Lahr later wrote: "On stage, Dad was sensational; in private he was sensationally taciturn: a brooding absent presence, to be encountered mostly in his bedroom chair at his desk, turned away from us...". However, Lahr did spend a lot of time with his father at theaters playing with props and costumes. His childhood was also filled with access to Hollywood and Vaudeville celebrities who were his father's friends, such as Eddie Foy Jr., Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx, and Ethel Merman.
When his father left movies for the stage, the family moved from their home in Coldwater Canyon to Manhattan.
Lahr received a B.A. from Yale University. While there, he was a member of the literary fraternity of St. Anthony Hall and was an editor of the Yale Daily News. He also has a master's degree from Worcester College, Oxford University.
Lahr started his career managing theaters. In 1968, he was a literary adviser to the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was an advisor to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Manhattan, New York from 1969 to 1971. He also was a literary consultant for the Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater in the 1970s.
He has adapted several books for the stage; these plays were performed at the Royal National Theatre in London, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Royal Exchange in Manchester, and in the West End of London.
In 2002, he co-wrote Elaine Stritch's one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty. He and Stritch won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for the show. However, Lahr sued Strich, claiming she "cheated him of profits" from the play.