Christopher Durang Explains It All For You

“Durang uses his absurd humor to challenge the rigidity of some religious beliefs, as well as homophobia, methods of psychoanalysis, marriage, and parenthood… His plays may offend some, but they…

Laughing Wild and Baby with the Bathwater

“Gifted young playwright Christopher Durang is offering one of the best plays of the season with his brief, complex comedy on parenthood.” –Richard Christiansen, Los Angeles Times…

Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them

“A whirligig fun house . . . Durang’s funniest play! . . . hilarious new comedy.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times…

Miss Witherspoon & Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge

“An endearingly meditative farce . . . It’s a pleasure to note that [Durang] hasn’t lost his screwball.” –Richard Corliss, Time…

Grove at Home: January 3-9

…playwright Christopher Durang. Over his distinguished career, Durang has been both author and actor, Obie- and Tony-winner, even occasionally a Brecht-parodying SNL guest. In this interview shot for the Dramatists…

Betty’s Summer Vacation

“With a style that incorporates Brechtian alienation and Alfred Jarry grotesquerie, the deliriously assaultive, brashly funny Vacation defines to perfection the lurid, scandal-starved past decade.” –Erik Jackson, Time Out New…

The Marriage of Bette and Boo

“A remorselessly sad, achingly funny assault on the vanities, inanities, and insanities of family life . . . a new poignancy has entered his work . . . universal in…

Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre

“The nine plays included in this volume are not only modern by date, 1944-1975, but in their dramatization . . . . Though each may differ from the others in…

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