“Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.” MindAmericaPoliticalPowerfulMusicalConservativeTheatreMost PowerfulInsidious Author:John Lahr
“Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.” AmericaSpiritualWhiteCenturyBrilliantTwentieth CenturySalesmanAtrophyTaxonomy Author: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.” TwoPlayAmericaThreeHoursDramaApproachAngelGlassesErasAmbitiousLyricalMillenniumTennesseeMenagerieWatershedsAngels In America Author:John Lahr