As implied by Larry's bio, he is strongly interested in classical traditions in music, art, and literature. Several of his plays (such as the full-length "Capriccio Radio" and "A Kreutzer Sonata," as well as the shorter "Just One," "Some Squeaking Cleopatra Boy," and "The Bad Boy of the Sonnets" ) focus on the lives of creative people, including such major figures from music and literature as Beethoven, Shakespeare, Dante, and Chaucer. He is also greatly interested in the art of adaptation, which sometimes is considered a less creative type of drama than works with original plots. But Larry believes he has never been as original than in his modern-verse adaptations from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

Because Larry has no sense of humor, many of his plays are comic or farcical. Among his favorites are plays that focus on the absurdity of life, such as "Stagefright," in which a group of actors is too afraid to go on stage, or "Pinch My What?," where a struggling young actor tries a desperate, cockamamie scheme to land a role in a B-level horror picture, and "Peas in the Fried Rice," where workers out for Chinese lunch suffer greatly when their favorite restaurant starts adding peas to the aforementioned fried rice.