I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!
John LahrDeath of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
John LahrLike the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
John LahrOf the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
John Lahr