In Show and Tell, John Lahr, probably the most intelligent and insightful writer on theatre today The New York Times Book Review, reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahrs utterly 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, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Wallace Shawn and Arthur Miller. In these, and the moving autobiographical portraits of his father, Bert Lahr, who was the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and his mother, a former Ziegfeld girl, Lahr charts the geography of fame. Lahrs gift is to get inside both the art and the artist, to show how the work and the life intersect.
