John Lahr bibliography

The John Lahr bibliography is a list of the published works of John Lahr.

Books

Biographies and profiles

• Notes on a Cowardly Lion-The Biography of Bert Lahr (1969)
• Prick Up Your Ears (Joe Orton, 1978)
• Coward the Playwright (1983)
• Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries (1991)
• Sinatra: The Artist and the Man (1997)
• Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles (2000)
• Honky Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People (2005)
• Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (2014)

As editor

• A Casebook on Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1971) (With Anthea Lahr)
• The Orton Diaries (Diaries of Joe Orton, 1986)
• The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001)

Collected criticism

• Up Against the Fourth Wall (1970)
• Acting Out America (1972)
• Astonish Me: Adventures in Contemporary Theater (1973)
• Life Show (1973, with Jonathan Price)
• Automatic Vaudeville (1984)
• Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theatre (1996)
• Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows (2015)

Novels

• The Autograph Hound (1972)
• Hot to Trot (1974)

Plays

• Diary of a Somebody (1989) (adapted from Joe Orton's diaries)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1993) (adapted from Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name)

Essays and reporting

• Lahr, John (November 24, 2008). "Land of Lost Souls". The Critics. Life and Letters. The New Yorker. 84 (38): 114–120. Retrieved 16 April 2009.  David Rabe's America.
• — (November 15, 2010). "Angels on the Verge". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 86 (36). Retrieved 30 April 2012.  (Subjects: Michael Greif directs Angels in America at the Peter Norton Space; Bartlett Sher directs a musical adaptation of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Belasco)
• — (March 14, 2011). "Losers Take All". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 62–64.  Gregory Mosher directs Jason Miller's That Championship Season; Daniel Sullivan directs David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
• — (April 4, 2011). "God Squad". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (7): 76–77. Retrieved 7 October 2014.  Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw direct The Book of Mormon at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
• — (November 7, 2011). "The Natural". Backstage Chronicles. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 31–37. Retrieved 28 March 2014.  Nina Arianda.
• — (January 30, 2012). "Boldfaced Bard". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 87 (46): 68–70.  Sam Mendes directs "Richard III" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
• — (February 13–20, 2012). "A Talent to Abuse". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (1): 118–119. Retrieved 2014-11-13.  Sam Gold directs Look Back in Anger at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre.
• — (November 19, 2012). "Supersize". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 94-95. Retrieved 2014-11-04.  James Lapine directs Annie at the Palace Theatre; Davis McCallum directs Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at Playwrights Horizons.
• — (November 26, 2012). "Unhappy Families". The Critics. The Theatre. The New Yorker. 88 (37): 84–85.  Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" (dir. Nicholas Martin, at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse) and David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child" (dir. Leigh Silverman at the Signature).
• — (February 25, 2013). "Songs of angry men". The Talk of the Town. Credit Due Dept. The New Yorker. 89 (2): 26–27. Retrieved 2015-05-02.