Christopher Durang

Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang’s plays include The Idiots Karamazov (coauthored with Albert Innaurato), A History of the American Film (Tony nom.), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy (off and on Broadway), Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obies for playwriting, Jerry Zaks’ directing, ensemble acting; Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Betty's Summer Vacation (Obies for playwriting, Nicholas Martin’s directing, Kristine Nielsen), Miss Witherspoon (2005 Pulitzer finalist), Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them and Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013 Tony Award for Best Play). Cabaret: Das Lusitania Songspiel, coauthored and performed by Sigourney Weaver and Durang (Drama Desk nominations for both performers); Chris Durang and Dawne (Bistro Award for Durang and cohorts John Augustine and Sherry Anderson).He won the Harvard Arts Medal and the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Master American Dramatist, and was inducted in the Theatre Hall of Fame. For 21 years, he and Marsha Norman were co-chairs of the Juilliard Playwriting Program. He was a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. Durang died of complications of aphasia on April 2, 2024.
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Baby with the Bathwater
Christopher Durang
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Baby with the Bathwater
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2m
This bitingly satiric black comedy, which enjoyed a long off-Broadway run, begins with Helen and John deciding their newly born child is a g…
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Beyond Therapy
Christopher Durang
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Beyond Therapy
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 4m
Chirstopher Durang's delightful off-Broadway hit, which moved successfully to Broadway, concerns Bruce and Prudence, two modern, neurotic urbanites searching for love and sanity – with the questionable help of their offbeat therapists.
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Laughing Wild
Christopher Durang
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Laughing Wild
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1w, 1m
A provocative, brilliantly inventive and very funny study of the perils of modern life in urban America from the author of Beyond Therapy and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You. It was first presented with great success in New York and subs…
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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang
Full-Length Play, DramaLoading...
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m, 1boy(s)
The play opens with a long lecture on Roman Catholicism by Sister Mary, starting conventionally but growing in morbidity and even horror as it proceeds. The lecture is interrupted by four of her ex-students, who present a religious 'pageant', then re…
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Baby with the Bathwater
Christopher Durang
Full-Length Play, ComedyBaby with the Bathwater
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2m
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Beyond Therapy
Christopher Durang
Full-Length Play, ComedyBeyond Therapy
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 4m
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Laughing Wild
Christopher Durang
Full-Length Play, ComedyLaughing Wild
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1w, 1m
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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang
Full-Length Play, DramaSister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m, 1boy(s)