John Lahr

John Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic, biographer, and writer, best known as the senior drama critic at The New Yorker from 1992 to 2013 and author of acclaimed biographies including Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (2014, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Sheridan Morley Prize, and others), Notes on a Cowardly Lion (1970, on his father Bert Lahr), and Prick Up Your Ears (1978, on Joe Orton). He has received multiple George Jean Nathan Awards for Dramatic Criticism, a Tony Award for co-writing Elaine Stritch at Liberty (2002), and continues to write profiles and his memoir These Foolish Things: A Life is slated for 2027 publication johnlahr.com.