John Lahr’s first collection brings together two years of his writing on Evergreen Review, which earned him the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism---the youngest critic ever to be awarded the prize. The collection ranges over such important theatrical events as Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”, Richard Schechner’s “Dionysus in ‘69”, Vaclav Havel’s “The Memorandum”, John Guare’s “Muzeeka”, Arthur Kopit’s “Indians”, Jean-Claude van Itallie’s “”America Hurrah”.  He also

chronicles the emergence and the aesthetic of such groups as The San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Performance Group, La Mama and the ghetto street theatre of Enrique Vargas.

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