57 Quotes by John Lahr

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.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

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

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

In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.