In 1968, he was a literary adviser to the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lahr started his career managing theaters. He also has a master's degree from Worcester College, Oxford University. Anthony Hall and was an editor of the Yale Daily News. While there, he was a member of the literary fraternity of St. His childhood was also filled with access to Hollywood and Vaudeville celebrities who were his father's friends, such as Eddie Foy Jr., Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx, and Ethel Merman. However, Lahr did spend a lot of time with his father at theaters playing with props and costumes. At home, Dad was depressed, bewildered, hidden in front of the paying customers, however, he was buoyant and truthful-a bellowing, cavorting genius who could reduce audiences to a level of glee so intense that from the wings I once saw a man stuff a handkerchief in his mouth to stop laughing. The public got his best self-inspired, full of prowess-the family got the rest. The Bert Lahr my sister and I call 'Dad' is the ravishing performer, not the indifferent parent. On stage, Dad was sensational in private he was sensationally taciturn: a brooding absent presence, to be encountered mostly in his bedroom chair at his desk, turned away from us, with his blue Sulka bathrobe knotted under his pot belly. Until his father was on the cover of Time magazine when Lahr was in grade school, he did not know what his father did for a living.

When his father left movies for the stage, the family moved from their home in Coldwater Canyon to Manhattan. He is the son of Mildred 'Millie' Schroeder, a Ziegfeld girl, and Bert Lahr, an actor and comedian most famous for portraying the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Lahr was born in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish family. Lahr has been called 'one of the greatest biographers writing today'. He has written more than twenty books related to theater. From 1992 to 2013, he was a staff writer and the senior drama critic at The New Yorker. John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is an American theater critic and writer.

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