Light Fantastic. Adventures In Theatre

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: The Dial Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: First Edition

Description: 381 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the page edges.

Publishers Description: A timeless collection of essays about the theatreand and by the celebrated biographer and drama critic atand and The New Yorker.Theatre criticism,and and writes John Lahr in his introduction toand and Light Fantastic, should conjure "theand and life of the theatre as well as the life of theand and play. We are in danger of losing our theatreand and culture; and these essays are my little rear-guard actionand and to keep the public gaze focused on the livelyand and language and maverick thoughts ofand and theatricals--performers, playwrights, directors, designers--who areand and the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time.'and and "Most of the essays to be found inand and this, Lahr's first collection, come fromand and The New Yorker, where Lahr has been dramaand and critic since 1992. Here, the reader will findand and over forty pieces that represent Lahr's remarkableand and knowledge of theatrical and cultural history, hisand and astute observations about comics (Roseanne Barr,and and Peter Cook, Bill Hicks), playwrights (Oscar Wilde,and and Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, Arthur Miller,and and Neil Simon, Tom Stoppard), composers (Stephenand and Sondheim, George and Ira Gershwin, Julie Styne), andand and directors (George C. Wolfe, Ingmar Bergman, Peterand and Brook). Most particularly, however, theseand and wide-ranging essays showcase Lahr's unique insight into humanand and nature that has made him an acclaimed, bestsellingand and biographer on both sides of the Atlantic.

ISBN: 9780385315463