On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking,...

A dazzling selection of pieces on theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights, by the New Yorker's senior drama critic emeritus John Lahr, in which his expertise and exhilaration are palpable. From modern greats like Arthur...

The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright