Joy Ride
Lives of the Theatricals
1st Edition
Published on 10. September 2015
592 pages
978-1-4088-6864-5 (ISBN)
Description
A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York's senior drama critic emeritus and the author of Tennessee Williams
'By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read' Arthur Miller
'Luminous with insight and love for every aspect of the act of dramatic creation' Daily Mail
'A wonderful celebration of theatre, filled with insights' Guardian
'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable.
From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tony Kushner and August Wilson, through the work of directors like Nicholas Hytner and Ingmar Bergman, to Shakespeare himself, the depth of Lahr's understanding is plain to see and extraordinary to read. He brings the reader up close and personal to the artists and their art.
Whether you are a regular theatre-goer, or just starting out, Lahr's book delights as both a celebration and a guide.
'By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read' Arthur Miller
'Luminous with insight and love for every aspect of the act of dramatic creation' Daily Mail
'A wonderful celebration of theatre, filled with insights' Guardian
'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable.
From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tony Kushner and August Wilson, through the work of directors like Nicholas Hytner and Ingmar Bergman, to Shakespeare himself, the depth of Lahr's understanding is plain to see and extraordinary to read. He brings the reader up close and personal to the artists and their art.
Whether you are a regular theatre-goer, or just starting out, Lahr's book delights as both a celebration and a guide.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-6864-5 (9781408868645)
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Person
John Lahr was the senior drama critic for the New Yorker for twenty years. He is a critic, novelist and biographer and is the author of seventeen books, including Notes on a Cowardly Lion, the biography of Bert Lahr and, most recently, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, which was a finalist for the National Book Award 2014. He lives in North London.
Content
- Cover
- A Note on the Author
- Dedication
- Also by John Lahr
- Title
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- PART I: PLAYWRIGHTS
- 1. Arthur Miller
- A View from the Bridge
- 2. August Wilson
- Gem of the Ocean
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- Seven Guitars
- 3. Tony Kushner
- Angels in America
- Caroline, or Change
- 4. David Mamet
- The Cryptogram
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- 5. Sarah Ruhl
- Eurydice
- Stage Kiss
- 6. Clifford Odets
- Golden Boy
- 7. David Rabe
- Hurlyburly
- 8. Harold Pinter
- Moonlight
- The Room and Celebration
- 9. Wallace Shawn
- The Designated Mourner
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors
- 10. Neil LaBute
- The Mercy Seat
- 11. Sam Shepard
- True West
- 12. William Shakespeare
- John Barton
- Hamlet
- The Winter's Tale
- Othello
- Macbeth
- King Lear
- PART II: PRODUCTIONS
- Arcadia
- The Pajama Game
- The Retreat from Moscow
- Private Lives
- Company
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Me, Myself & I
- Oklahoma!
- The Light in the Piazza
- Orpheus Descending
- The Rose Tattoo
- Carousel
- PART III: DIRECTORS
- 13. Nicholas Hytner
- The History Boys
- 14. Ingmar Bergman
- Madam de Sade
- The Misanthrope
- 15. Susan Stroman
- The Producers
- 16. Mike Nichols
- Death of a Salesman
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Also Available by John Lahr
- Copyright
