About this title: 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 about Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, Tom Stoppard; examinations of composers Stephen Sondheim, the Gershwins, Jules Styne; and in-depth looks at the works of directors Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook and George C. ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Description: New. 0385315465 tight spine, clean pages, has remainder mark, has dust jacket books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
Description: Very Good in VG jacket. 0385315465 some wear to covers and edges, DJ has some scuffing books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Dial Press
Date Published: 1996-02-01
ISBN-13:9780385315463ISBN:0385315465
Description: Very Good. Hardcover. First printing. Clean and unmarked (NOT ex-Library). Untorn and unclipped dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Binding solid and square; corners sharp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial Press, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780385315463ISBN:0385315465
Description: Yes jacket. 8vo. Near Fine/DJ Near Fine. Small mild stain on flyleaf; very light wear at DJ spine panel tips. Grey boards, black cloth backstrip, viii-381 pages, index. Essays on contemporary theatre---Comedians, Playwrights, Musicals, Productions. "...John Lahr has drawn on his internationally acclaimed skills as a best-selling biographer, his wide-ranging vision as theatre historian, and his unique insight into our contemporaty culture..." read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial Press, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780385315463ISBN:0385315465
Description: Yes jacket. 8vo. Fine/DJ Near Fine. Very light wear at DJ spine panel tips. Grey boards, black cloth backstrip, viii-381 pages, index. Essays on contemporary theatre---Comedians, Playwrights, Musicals, Productions. "...John Lahr has drawn on his internationally acclaimed skills as a best-selling biographer, his wide-ranging vision as theatre historian, and his unique insight into our contemporaty culture..." read more
Description: Very Good. 0385315465 Book and dust jacket in excellent condition, 1st printing, full number line, minor curling to jacket edges, book looks nearly new. Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. This 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book has yellow and light green lettering on the gray/illustrated dust jacket spine with a color illustrated cover. Mr. Lahr extends and enhances The New Yorker's tradition of participatory criticism, he writes of the theatre with humor and insight, and not only with love, but with a beautiful sweetness. 381 pages. Clean with tight binding in Fine/Fine condition. read more
Edition: 3/96 1st
Binding: hard
Publisher: Dial, New York
Date Published: c1996
ISBN-13:9780385315463ISBN:0385315465
Description: Paul Davis Studio dj. fine, fine dj, black cloth spine w/ charcoal bds. 381 pgs, ISBN: 0-385-31546-5. Essays on Joe Orton, Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter, Lillian Hellman, more--from the New Yorker columnist. read more
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