'The theatre is absurdly difficult to write about, it's fragile, elusive, ephemeral, but John Lahr manages to write about it better than anybody in the English language' (Sir Richard Eyre)
In this book, John Lahr reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahr's winning and incisive profiles probe some of the most compelling, elusive and irresistible public personas of our time, among them Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Arthur Miller and Irving Berlin. In these, and in the portrait of his father Bert Lahr (who played the Cowardly Lion in 'The Wizard Of Oz') Lahr charts the geography of fame.
