Christopher Durang News

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.

Tuesday, May 19, 7 PM. at Kittery's Rice Public Library KITTERY, Maine - If the old romantic movie "A Man and a Woman" had been rewritten by the deranged Durang, it might have been something very like this manic two-character romp.

The chance to see a classic play like 'The Glass Menagerie' immediately followed by its parody doesn't come along very often.

The Public Theater has announced a series of post-performance discussions that will follow the Public LAB's current presentation of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert .

The casts of each work feature many familiar faces from MDIHS theater and show choir productions, the majority of whom are seniors, and affords the actors a unique opportunity to showcase their singular and collective talents.

Off-Broadway's Public Theater is showing the latest work by playwright Christopher Durang, "Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them." Time Out New York's theater critic David Cote filed the following review.

An odd couple that meets through a singles ad and goes out on one disastrous date after another at the insistence of their quirky therapists may not sound like a story that ends happily ever after.

Stars Audrie Neenan, John Pankow, David Aaron Baker, Laura Benanti, Amir Arison, Richard Poe and Kristine Nielsen cana t go wrong with a bow on opening night.

Laura Benanti is relishing the relish the challenge of "being the not-crazy person in a crazy world." Benanti stars in the new Christopher Durang comedy WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM, which opened on Monday.

Happy news from Christopher Durang, whose a oeWhy Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Thema at New Yorka s Public Theater is his funniest play in years.

If that's true, imagine the futility of creating an antiwar play. Christopher Durang knows this, I think, and in his witty and sharp Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them , now at the Public, he all but admits that there's only so much a playwright can do.

Christopher Durang , arguably America's sharpest satirical playwright, is back with another of his timely comedies.

Laura Benanti, Amir Arison and Richard Poe in "Why Torture is Wrong." 'Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them' Through April 26 Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.

Growing up Catholic, playwright Christopher Durang says, he was haunted by aoethis thing called aIndex of Forbidden Books.a aoeI donat know what century it came from,a he tells The Postas Barbara Hoffman, aoebut it was said that these were either bad books or misleading ones, and people would need the guidance of the church before reading them.a ...

If there ever was a playwright for our country's currently troubled moment in history, it is arguably Christopher Durang.

Christopher Durang is nothing if not wacky. Writers, often at a loss for how best to crystallize his uniquely black sense of humor, most regularly fall back on "absurdist." On his website, Durang suggests other helpful, frequently used keywords that best pertain to his work.

"I come from an alcoholic family," says playwright Christopher Durang. He mentions this casually, throwing it away like a common expression, as if his parents emigrated from Alcoholia and he grew up speaking Alcoholish at home.

Contemporary drama comes into focus this weekend with the opening of three productions on area stages.

The Falcon Players at Fitchburg State College present a spring production of three one act plays by Christopher Durang.