The Honourable Beast: A Posthumous Autobiography by John Dexter
The theatre director John Dexter was also an outspoken correspondent, a candid diarist and kept detailed production notebooks. From this material, O'Hara, Dexter's lifetime companion, reveals encounters with theatre and opera stars and behind-the-scenes conflicts at the National and the Met. Dexter directed such classics as Equus, Galileo, Pygmalion, Madame Butterfly and The Threepenny Opera.