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      Diary of a Somebody

      John Lahr

      DIARY OF A SOMEBODY

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      Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr

      John Lahr

      Examines the history of modern American show business through the long and glorious career of the author’s father - the raucous low-comic star of burlesque, vaudeville, the Broadway revue and…

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      Arthur Miller

      John Lahr

      A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights

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      Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows

      John Lahr

      A collection of John Lahr’s New Yorker profiles and reviews that are the nearest we get to modern theatre history (The Spectator).

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      Coward The Playwright

      John Lahr

      A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr’s famous 1982 study of Noel Coward’s plays

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      Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

      John Lahr

      A biography that reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton. This book chronicles Orton’s working-class childhood and stagestruck adolescence, the scandals and disasters of his early professional years, and…

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      Show and Tell

      John Lahr

      In these incisive, often moving portraits John Lahr charts the geography of fame with the gift of revealing both the art and the artist, uncovering how life and work intersect.

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      Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals

      John Lahr

      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…

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      Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

      John Lahr

      National Book Award Finalist * National Book Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2014 * Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2014 * The…

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      Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows

      John Lahr

      Lahr creates a book worthy of its title: It is a living celebration of theater itself. -Caryn James, New York Times Book Review

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      Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

      John Lahr

      National Book Award Finalist * National Book Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2014 * Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2014 * The…

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      Arthur Miller: American Witness

      John Lahr

      A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights

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      Coward the Playwright

      John Lahr

      Drawing on research on prehistoric archaeology, epigraphy and art history, Charles Higham presents a clear and concise history of the remarkable civilisation of Angkor.

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      Hancock On Hancock

      Michael Doyle

      Hancock on Hancock draws on a series of in-depth interviews conducted with the filmmaker over the course of five years, providing a candid commentary on one man’s life and work…

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      Hancock on Hancock (Hardback)

      Michael Doyle

      Hancock on Hancock draws on a series of in-depth interviews conducted with the filmmaker over the course of five years, providing a candid commentary on one man’s life and work…

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      The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

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      A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created Oh Calcutta . This…

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      Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & …

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      Formerly part of the World Dramatists series of play collections by classic and modern playwrights, including foreign works in workable and accurate translations, this title and seven others are reissued…

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      Entertaining Mr Sloane

      Joe Orton

      Re-issue of this 60s classic

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      Playwrights at Work

      John Lahr

      In this volume, some 20th-century playwrights talk about their craft. From the experiences that inspire their work to their experiences of their work, the interviewees include Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams…

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      New Selected Essays: Where I Live

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      There isn’t a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book. -Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post

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      Last Flight from Saigon

      Thomas G Tobin,John F Hilgenberg,Arthur E Laehr

      Last Flight From Saigon is an exciting and moving account of how all our Services, as well as several civilian agencies, pulled together to pull-off the largest aerial evacuation in…

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      The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints

      This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how America’s…

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      The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints

      This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how America’s…

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