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Tennessee Williams by John Lahr
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION The definitive biography of America's most impassioned and lyrical twentieth-century playwright from acclaimed theatre critic John Lahr ... -
Diary of a Somebody by John Lahr 9780879101244
Booksplease Price: £8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101244Author John LahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher... -
Coward: The Playwright by John Lahr 9780413480507
Booksplease Price: £27.89A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noel Coward's plays "Noel Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur... -
Mod Lib Playwrights At Work by John Lahr 9780679640219
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679640219Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Arthur Miller: American Witness by John Lahr 9780300276794
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights "Lahr's cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not... -
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by John Lahr 9780747558415 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.49A 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". He was a notorious... -
Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows by John Lahr 9780393246407
Booksplease Price: £23.06Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols,... -
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr 9780393351651
Booksplease Price: £33.39John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century,... -
Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr by John Lahr 9781504048439
Booksplease Price: £19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504048439Author John LahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road... -
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr 9781504031479
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504031479Author John LahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road... -
It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way by Myrna Katz Frommer 9781589799165
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans-including Carol Channing, Hal Prince, Donna McKechnie, Hal... -
Razzle Dazzle 'Em: New Yorker Profiles of Show-Biz Legends John Lahr 9781848227330
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.76In Razzle Dazzle 'Em, John Lahr, the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker for 21 years and a multi-award-winning biographer, captures the essence of some of Hollywood's most influential actors and... -
Prick Up Your Ears by Simon Bent 9781840029451
Booksplease Price: £12.47Inspired by John Lahr's biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, this is a darkly funny and moving play. It tells the sensational story behind the life of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, holed up in... -
Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook by James Roose-Evans
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John LahrAbout the AuthorAuthored by Roose-Evans,... -
Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00From Oklahoma! to Carousel , The Sound of Music to The King and I , the sights and sounds of Broadway were dominated by Richard Rodgers for the better part of the twentieth century. "A memoir... -
Semi-monde by Noel Coward 9780413763006
Booksplease Price: £14.24The first single edition of Noel Coward's most controversial play."Only in Semi-Monde does Coward find a successful metaphor for the sexual complications that lie behind his posturing. Semi-Monde is... -
The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton 9780306807336
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was... -
Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay 9780573115059
Booksplease Price: £12.27M1 F6 1F Voice. The Prime Minister's study at Chequers The UK is in crisis: debt is spiralling, unemployment is on the rise and the fragile coalition cabinet, led by Prime Minister Jim Hacker, is at... -
That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play by Sheila Callaghan 9780573696909
Booksplease Price: £14.64Comedy / Characters: 2m, 3f A pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the country on a murderous rampage against right-wing pro-lifers, blogging about their exploits in gruesome detail... -
Prayer for My Enemy by Craig Lucas 9780573697173
Booksplease Price: £14.69Drama Characters: 3 male, 3 female Set Requirement: Simple Prayer for my Enemy was produced Off-Broadway as part of the 2008-2009 Season at Playwrights Horizons. In Prayer for my Enemy, two... -
The Cryptogram by David Mamet 9780413693709
Booksplease Price: £14.45"I suspect that in time, The Cryptogram will take its place among Mamet's major works" John Lahr "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the... -
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Lan Plays: v.1: "Painting a Wall";" Red Earth"; "Flight"; "Desire"; "The Ends of the Earth" by David Lan 9780413736802
Booksplease Price: £24.93The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan Painting a Wall: 'an essential theatrical image of the human condition' - Plays and Players Red Earth: 'Mature skill...in the... -
The Critics Say...: 57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future by Matt Windman 9780786496709
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59What will happen to the theater when there are no more critics? With the decline of print media and the rise of online journalism, theater critics are facing hard times. As their influence fades,... -
Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl
Booksplease Price: £16.45Dramatic Comedy Characters: 8 male, 3 female (with doubling) Hailed by the New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary", "bold", and "inventive", Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of... -
Patriots by Peter Morgan 9780571386468
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An unflinching story of ambition and the dangers of loyalty and love in the Soviet Union, by the creator of The Crown, updated and revised for the 2024 Broadway production.If the politicians cannot... -
Theater Voices: Conversations on the Stage by Steve Capra 9780810850477
Booksplease Price: £51.20According to Sir Peter Hall, "The theatre's been dying for two thousand years, and I'm sure will continue to." In the meantime, Hall and other leading figures of the stage have continued to... -
Sons of the Prophet: A Play by Stephen Karam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play's centre is... -
Judy Garland: A Biography by Anne Edwards 9781589797871
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Praised as "undoubtedly the best of the many books on Judy Garland" by no less a critic than John Lahr (the son of Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz), Anne Edwards's biography attempts... -
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 9780811216029
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.60It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared-57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A... -
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.51'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'."Lady Sings the Blues is the... -
Woody Allen: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781578067930
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Woody Allen (b. 1935) is one of America's most idiosyncratic filmmakers, with an unparalleled output of nearly one film every year for over three decades. His movies are filled with rapid-fire... -
How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Harold Guskin is an Acting Doctor whose clients include David Suchet, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda and dozens more. In HOW TO STOP ACTING he reveals the insights and techniques that... -
![Orton Complete Plays: "Entertaining Mr. Sloane", "Loot", "What the Butler", "Ruffian", "Erpingham Camp", "Funeral Games" "Good and Faithful Servant" by Joe Orton](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/919288/918999/9780413346100__98250.1687821848.jpg?c=1 "Orton Complete Plays: "Entertaining Mr. Sloane", "Loot", "What the Butler", "Ruffian", "Erpingham Camp", "Funeral Games" "Good and Faithful Servant" by Joe Orton")
Orton Complete Plays: "Entertaining Mr. Sloane", "Loot", "What the Butler", "Ruffian", "Erpingham Camp", "Funeral Games" "Good and Faithful Servant" by Joe Orton
Booksplease Price: £25.99I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his... -
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.24In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to... -
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"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton 9780413413406 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to... -
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"Entertaining Mr Sloane" by Joe Orton
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not... -
Seven Guitars by August Wilson 9780452276925
Booksplease Price: £9.42Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill... -
Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79As a gay Lebanese-American Maronite Christian in rural Pennsylvania, Joseph Douaihy has a pretty complicated life. But when his father dies as the result of a prank, things truly take a turn for the... -
Backlands: A Novel by Victoria Shorr 9780393246025
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.27Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil-a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertao-Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic...