• John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer. From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at...
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    Lahrheim (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967), known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American stage and screen actor and comedian. He was best known for...
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    Lahr (officially Lahr/Schwarzwald since 30 September 1978) (German: [laːɐ̯]); Low Alemannic: Lohr) is a city in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany, approximately...
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  • daughter of actor Bert Lahr, and sister of The New Yorker drama critic John Lahr. After studying art at The Slade School of Fine Art at University College...
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  • on the 1978 biography by John Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lahr, and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy...
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  • German descent Jane Lahr (born 1943), daughter of Bert Lahr, sister of John Lahr John Lahr (born 1941), American theater critic Charles Lahr (1885–1971), German-born...
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    directing the production. The revival drew rave reviews, with critic John Lahr stating that the 'scintillating show' also offered the 'rousing spectacle...
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  • Stanley Roberts, starring Fredric March. In 1999, New Yorker drama critic John Lahr said that with 11 million copies sold, it was "probably the most successful...
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    motorcycle on his 16th birthday to "promote fearlessness." The critic John Lahr wrote in a 1999 New Yorker profile that, "To a large extent, Schreiber's...
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    August 2015. Diary, 16 February 1971: The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (ed. John Lahr, 2001) Maslin, Janet (29 July 1983). "Krull, Adventure with Magic and...
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    stage." John Lahr, "Demolition Man: Harold Pinter and 'The Homecoming' ", The New Yorker, 24 December 2007. See, e.g., Lahr, Casebook; Lahr, "Demolition...
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  • Theatre Group, 2009. John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, 1980 Penguin Books edition, Chapter 6, 'The Freaks' Roll-Call', p. 337 John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears...
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    and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries by John Lahr. London: Bloomsbury, 1991; and New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. A...
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    October 11, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2009. "Steve Buscemi profile". John Lahr. September 11, 2001. Archived from the original on October 29, 2011. Retrieved...
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    Kenneth Tynan, diary, 27 March 1971: The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (ed. John Lahr, 2001). Times Magazine, 25 February 2012 Elaine Taylor at IMDb  Elaine...
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  • How Will He Know? Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr (2000), John Lahr, p.249, ISBN 0-520-22304-7 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre...
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    Connie Booth (category Lahr family)
    daughter Cynthia married screenwriter Ed Solomon in 1995. Booth married John Lahr, author and former New Yorker senior drama critic, in 2000. They live...
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  • mother is based on McCarthy's counsel Roy Cohn. A stage adaptation by John Lahr opened in London in 1991, and has since played in the United States. Kevin...
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    acting alongside F. Murray Abraham, Bobby Cannavale, and Dylan Baker. John Lahr of The New Yorker praised Pill describing her as "excellent" adding, "It...
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  • David Mamet in 1977. The two had met during the production on Slap Shot. John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet...
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    Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl (2008–2012), and Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2018–present). Shawn is also a playwright; his...
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    words you thought you knew pronounced correctly for the first time.'" John Lahr of The New Yorker wrote of her portrayal, "with her alert mind, her informed...
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    was mostly panned, he was a critical standout – cited as "Excellent" by John Lahr of The New Yorker, and receiving praise from New York Times critic Ben...
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  • Liberty is an autobiographical one-woman show written by Elaine Stritch and John Lahr, and produced by George C. Wolf, which is composed of anecdotes from Stritch's...
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    Wizard is replaced with a medal marked "Courage". Bert Lahr's biography, written by his son John Lahr, is entitled Notes on a Cowardly Lion. The movie was...
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  • 339 John Chapman "The School for Scandal is Memorable", Chicago Tribune (reprint of Daily News (New York) item), 26 January 1963, p.64 John Lahr Prick...
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  • Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is a book by John Lahr first published in 2014. It is a biography of Tennessee Williams. It was published...
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  • Battle over Peggy Guggenheim's Blockbuster Art Collection". Vanity Fair. John Lahr (March 14, 2005). "Solos and Solitaries". The New Yorker. Guggenheim 1979...
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    Elia Kazan: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. pp. vii–xi. Lahr, John (December 13, 2010). "Method Man". The New Yorker. Brenman-Gibson, Margaret...
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    please the raucous crowd at The Establishment club in London. According to John Lahr, Edna came into her own during the 1980s when the policies of Thatcherism—and...
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