Quotes by John Lahr

John Lahr

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it’s another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don’t know what they’ve made until they’ve made it.

Artist

Book

Theatre

Although the ‘New York Times’ annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There’s a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Demise

New York

News

Angels in America’ – which is composed of two three-hour plays, ‘Millennium Approaches’ and ‘Perestroika’ – proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Glass Menagerie.

Angel

Drama

Glasses

Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.

Pain

Play

Thinking

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

New York

Sports

Team

Criticism is a life without risk.

Criticism

Risk

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll’s doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.’s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

Heart

Summer

Sweet

Frivolity is the species’ refusal to suffer.

Refusal

Species

Suffering

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

Culture

Magic

Theatre

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime … something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

Changed

Dimes

Existential

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Quotes by John Lahr

John Lahr

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it’s another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don’t know what they’ve made until they’ve made it.

Although the ‘New York Times’ annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There’s a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Angels in America’ – which is composed of two three-hour plays, ‘Millennium Approaches’ and ‘Perestroika’ – proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Glass Menagerie.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

Criticism is a life without risk.

Frivolity is the species’ refusal to suffer.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime … something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

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