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1	Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks more books like this by Bill Hicks, John Lahr (Foreword by) add to wishlist This posthumous collection features Hicks's controversial humor and witheringly funny attacks on American culture, from its worship of celebrity and material goods to its involvement in the first Gulf War. see all copies from $6.00! new only from $10.33! \| SVS
2	The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan more books like this by Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr (Editor) add to wishlist A famous British drama critic, co-founder (with Laurence Olivier) of London's National Theater, recorded the goings-on of the theater world's brightest stars--sometimes tarnishing their gleam in telling anecdotes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist This work includes a new preface by the author. First published in 1969, "Notes on a Cowardly Lion" has established itself as one of the best-ever show business biographies. Drawing on his father's recollections and on the memories of those who worked with him, John Lahr brilliantly examines the history of modern American show business through the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Performance: Richard Avedon more books like this by Richard Avedon (Photographer), John Lahr, Andre Gregory (Contributions by) add to wishlist "Performance" sizzles with the electric charge that passes between a great photographer and an incandescent artist when they share a purpose and a passion. The photographer Richard Avedon had, in his own words, 'a passion for high-definition performance and a faith in the religion of perpetual acceleration'. Or, as critic John Lahr says of Avedon, ... see all copies from $43.98! new only from $43.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist John Lahr - New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer of his father Bert Lahr ("Notes on a Cowardly Lion") - reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton in another extraordinary biography that was chosen Book of the Year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White when it first appeared in 1978. 'I have high hopes of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others more books like this by John Orton, Joe Orton, John Lahr (Editor) add to wishlist The candid and sensational diaries of the brilliant 34-year-old playwright Joe Orton, written six months before he was murdered by his lover in 1967. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Light Fantastic more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist John Lahr, critic for the New Yorker, compiles his essays in this collection and integrates his interviews with performers and directors and playwrights. This is a volume of insights into human nature and how it is expressed through the theater, which includes observations about comics such as Roseanne Barr, Peter Cook and Bill Hicks; comments ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Honky Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist "Honky Tonk Parade" illuminates some of the most compelling, elusive and important artists of our time, who talk to Lahr with rare candour. His portraits weave together biography, anecdote and shrewd interpretation. On the roster of greats are Dame Edna Everage, Cole Porter, Dame Judi Dench, Ang Lee, Billy Connolly, Kenneth Tynan, Baz Luhrmann, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Coward the Playwright more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noel Coward's plays "Noel Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr's purpose in this book to show how that phenomenon called "Noel Coward" was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Sinatra : the artist and the man more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist This biography traces the career of Frank Sinatra, from his childhood days as a solitary latchkey kid in New Jersey, to the fame and fortune he achieved once his unique singing talent had been recognized. It looks at the man behind the myth in an attempt to reconcile the crooner on-stage with the bully behind the scenes, and details the company he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions
11	Prick Up Your Ears more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Show and Tell more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist In this collection of New Yorker magazine profiles, author John Lahr draws on countless interviews to characterize several people in the arts, including Woody Allen, Bob Hope, and David Mamet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.78! \| first editions
13 view cover	Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist In this collection of New Yorker magazine profiles, author John Lahr draws on countless interviews to characterize several people in the arts, including Woody Allen, Bob Hope, and David Mamet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| first editions
14	The Orton diaries : including the correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and others more books like this by Joe Orton, John Lahr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Orton Diaries more books like this by Joe Orton (Editor), John Lahr (Editor) add to wishlist To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature. When Joe Orton (19331967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.82! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Stars on Stage: Eileen Darby and Broadway's Golden Age: Photographs 1940-1964 more books like this by Mary C Henderson, Eileen Darby (Photographer), John Lahr (Introduction by) add to wishlist The years just prior to World War II and the three decades following represent the golden age of American theatre on Broadway. The names of stars such as Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando and Ethel Merman were writ large on theatres everywhere and writers like Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller offered a new play ... see all copies from $3.97! new only from $10.52!
17	Prick Up Yr Ears-V305 more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Writing Wrongs more books like this by W D King, Wallace Shawn, John Lahr (Foreword by) add to wishlist Wallace Shawn usually appears in our mind's eye as the consummate eccentric actor: the shy literature teacher in Clueless, the diabolically rational villain in "The Princess Bride", or as the eponymous protagonist of Vanya on 42nd Street. Few of us realize, however, that Shawn is also one of today's most provocative and political playwrights. ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $55.21! \| first editions
19	Astonish Me more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Automatic Vaudeville more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation: Backstage with Barry Humphries more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Head to Toe: A Novel & Up Against It: A Screenplay for the Beatles by Joe Orton, John Lahr (Introduction by) add to wishlist Here, together for the first time in one volume, are Joe Orton's earliest and last published works. Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high and begins making his way through the giant's nether regions and on toward his toes. En route, he falls into the clutches of a dominating and gender ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
23	Prick Up Your Ears: The Screenplay more books like this by Alan Bennett, John Lahr (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	Gem of the Ocean: 1904 more books like this by August Wilson, Phylicia Rashad (Foreword by), John Lahr (Introduction by) add to wishlist "No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."-John Lahr, "The New Yorker" "A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."-Ben Brantley, "The New ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $14.92! \| SVS
25 view cover	Diary of a Somebody more books like this by John Lahr add to wishlist Screenplay to John Lahr's successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton's life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on August 9, 1967, and then took his own life. see all copies from $3.26! new only from $3.94!

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