Christopher Durang News

What can you find in this week's Isthmus ? Highlights from the latest issue follow: Sally Franson writes about what it's like to be diagnosed with cancer, at age 25.

He was a precocious child. Christopher Durang, who has been writing challenging, serious and comical plays since the 1970s, now looks back and sees that he chose his artistic path at an age long before most people know what to do with their lives.

The Elmira College Theatre Program will present the dark comedy "Baby with the Bathwater" about the difficulties of parenting, today through Sunday at the college's Watson Arena.

Brooklyn's Gallery Players is giving this piece of holiday frippery from playwright Christopher Durang its New York premiere seven years after the show debuted at Pittsburgh's City Theatre as a commissioned work.

Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them , written by Christopher Durang.

Southwestern Illinois College students will perform two one-act plays by Christopher Durang at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday on the Belleville campus main complex theater.

Christopher Durang is at the height of his satirical powers in his newest play, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them.

Looks like the aged forces of Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein have punk'd us all.

Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein continue to engage in a public spat that many legiters have begun to suspect is a stunt, with Edna announcing the names of two producers and the potential addition of scribe Christopher Durang to her show's creative team.

Piedmont Virginia Community College will present The Bald Soprano and The Actor's Nightmare , Nov.

Christopher Durang storylines inspire a wide range of reactions, from Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize nominations to attempted censorship and controversy, but that's the life of a man willing to amplify the already absurd.

Fly-by-Night Productions will host auditions at 7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 26-27, at the Keystone Area Education Agency, 2310 Chaney Road, for the comedy "Miss Witherspoon," to be presented the weekends of Jan.

The Repertory Theatre Ensemble of Tri-Cities High School in East Point, Georgia will present their annual evening of One Act Plays.

North Adams, MA- Mill City Productions is pleased to announce performance dates for their a oeOur 5th Anniversary Celebration!a In honor of its 5th anniversary, MCP will be performing a revival of its first show- an evening of one act comedies a oeWandaa s Visita by Christopher Durang and a oeThis is a Playa by Daniel MacIvor.

Reasonably affluent theatergoers who espouse liberal sociopolitical views might be taken aback to find themselves the key satiric target of Bruce Norris' savage dark comedy.

Manhattan Arts Center's Late Night Readers' Theatre series presents ""Beyond Therapy"" by Christopher Durang and directed by Brent Sigman at 9 p.m. July 25.

Elizabeth Jones of Southwest Roanoke County is appearing in a show at the Jefferson Center.

The 2009-10 season of Studio 444, Greenville Little Theatre's alternative series, will open Aug.