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	Full Length Plays - Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang
		Christopher Durang has the wit, the high, rebellious spirits, and the rage of the born satirist.
		Durang’s plot, which has more bounces than a pinball game, goes from the unexpected to the unpredicted… providing two hours of hilarious surprises.
		Durang has often been asked to try to update the play, but has come to believe it is best presented as a period piece of the 1980s.
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	Christopher Durang
		Durang appeared in Laughing Wild in Los Angeles, shared an acting ensemble Obie for The Marriage of Bette and Boo in New York, and with John Augustine and Sherry Anderson has performed his cabaret Chris Durang & Dawne in numerous venues, winning a 1996 Bistro Award.
		Durang wrote for the Carol Burnett special "Carol and Robin and Whoopi and Carl" and for the PBS series "Trying Times." He has written several screenplays and two sitcom pilots.
		Durang has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, is the winner of numerous scholarship and grants, and had his plays published by Grove Press and Smith & Kraus.
	www.amrep.org /people/durang.html (221 words)

	Christopher Durang
		Christopher Durang is a contemporary playwright, especially popular in the 1980s, known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.
		Christopher Durang was born on January 2, 1949, in Montclair, New Jersey.
		Durang has been awarded numerous fellowships and high profile grants including a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, the CBS Playwriting Fellowship, the Lecompte du Nouy Foundation Grant, and the Kenyon Festival Theatre Playwriting Prize.
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	Christopher Durang (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christopher Durang (born January 2 1949) is a contemporary playwright, especially popular in the 1980s, known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.
		Durang is a particular favorite of college theatre students and fans of alternative and political theatre.
		Christopher Durang was born on January 2, 1949, in Montclair, New Jersey.
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	Christopher Durang Explores the Afterlife, Including His Own - New York Times
		Durang explained recently, he has undergone a spiritual evolution since he was an angry 28-year-old and wrote "Sister Mary Ignatius" (a play that Archbishop John May of St. Louis called "a vile diatribe").
		Durang, there is always the memory of the silent pain that permeated his childhood home in Montclair, N.J. His father was an architect and an alcoholic.
		Durang was attracted to New Age philosophy and to Transcendentalism, to nature as a path to spirituality.
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	glbtq >> literature >> Durang, Christopher
		Christopher Durang is an openly gay playwright, screenwriter, and actor whose works have been produced on and off-Broadway and regionally since the late 1970s.
		Durang was born on January 2, 1949 in Montclair, New Jersey.
		Durang, who jokes that he deserves an award for unproduced screenplays, has written a number of scripts for film and television, including The House of Husbands (co-written with Wendy Wasserstein, 1980), The Nun Who Shot Liberty Valance (1982), and Beyond Therapy (1986), adapted from his play.
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	Christopher Durang
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	That's the spirit: Christopher Durang tackles religion again in new play (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christopher Durang was only 28 when his play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You opened to acclaim and controversy.
		A viciously funny attack on Roman Catholic dogma, it featured a seriously deranged nun whose Christmas lecture is interrupted by four former students damaged by her teachings.
		Durang's latest play, 2005's Miss Witherspoon, is a return to the subject of religion.
	www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=4e235aca-35c0-454d-9470-4d6f72825900 (815 words)

	Christopher Durang / Beyond Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christopher Durang generates a unique style of humor: strong and sometimes dark but never fl, absurd but relevant and insightful.
		In case you're not familiar with the playwright Christopher Durang, let us introduce you by way of his old friend and collaborator, actress Sigourney Weaver, whom you probably already know of.
		And here we were attempting to gracefully segue into a discussion of playwright Christopher Durang, and instead we are now wallowing into the angst of human existence.
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~drolfe/durang.html (714 words)

	Christopher Durang (1949- )
		Christopher Durang was born on January 2, 1949, in Montclair, New Jersey.
		Like all of Durang's plays, The Marriage of Bette and Boo uses off-beat humor to examine issues that are, in truth, deeply disturbing.
		Durang has been awarded numerous fellowships and grants including a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, the CBS Playwriting Fellowship, the Lecompte du Nouy Foundation Grant, the Kenyon Festival Theatre Playwriting Prize, and the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award.
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	Everybody Comes to Rick Shaw's: Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick bring their film noir parody musical Adrift in ...
		Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick bring their film noir parody musical Adrift in Macao to Primary Stages.
		Though Durang is best known for such plays as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Beyond Therapy, and Miss Witherspoon, he adores musicals and has had more hands-on experience with the art form than many people realize.
		Says Durang, "I had been approached in the past by some composers who wanted to work with me, but their work was slightly more modern than my own musical sensibility.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/9879 (1146 words)

	Christopher Durang Trivia
		Christopher Durang was a regular on what short-lived TV sitcom?
		A: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, B: The Marriage of Bette and Boo, C: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, D: Betty's Summer Vacation
		What critic once wrote that Christopher Durang's style "has the wiggishness of four Marxes and the malice of a Jonathan Swift"?
	www.usefultrivia.com /literary_trivia/christopher_durang_trivia_index.html (241 words)

	Christopher Durang Summary
		Christopher Durang is a young playwright out of Harvard and Yale who took the wrong turn at some point and wound up in comedy.
		While his contemporaries were grimly exploring the Vietnam experience or urban bleakness or poking through the ashes of burned-out lives, Durang was busy collaborating on a send-up of Dostoevski called The Idiots Karamazov.
		Durang is a lineal descendant of Lenny Bruce, which is to say he is always trespassing on forbidden ground, skirting perilously close to nihilism.
	www.bookrags.com /Christopher_Durang (320 words)

	Durang, Christopher :: 20th Century : Gourt
		Christopher Durang - Biography of American playwright Christopher Durang, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
		IBDB - Christopher Durang - A complete list of the American playwright's Broadway credits.
		WGAE - Christopher Durang - A brief autobiography of the American playwright.
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	Eat Healthy. Live Happy. - Christopher Durang: Complete Full-Length Plays, 1975-1995
		The same paradox has dogged playwright Christopher Durang, whose wild, bitter, piercing sense of humor made a long-running hit of the one-act Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, but whose similarly biting full-length works have been strangely underappreciated.
		Durang's plays may be better read than seen, but you've got to love a guy who imagines a movie titled Seven Brides for Twelve Angry Men.
		But yet our board of education will not allow us to do plays which they dont deem good for our education, and Christopher Durang is far from that by their standards.
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	Playbill News: Debra Monk and Christopher Durang Start Laughing Wild in Boston, June 3
		The two-person show originally played at Playwrights Horizons in New York in October 1987, with Durang starring opposite E. Katherine Kerr, and was revived with the original stars in 2003.
		Director Martin, who staged Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation to OBIE Award success at Playwrights Horizons in 1999, directed the Broadway staging of Match by Stephen Belber as well as Butley, Springtime for Henry, A Month in the Country, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Hedda Gabler, Fully Committed and Dead End.
		Durang is best known as the playwright who penned such works as Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Sex and Longing and The Actor's Nightmare.
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	Christopher Durang - Biography - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Influenced by Eugene Ionesco and Tom Stoppard, among others, Durang uses wit and absurdity to take on issues of religion and family.
		Though Durang has written several screenplays, only Beyond Therapy, first staged as a play, has been filmed (under the direction of Robert Altman).
		As an actor, Durang has contributed spirited cameos to quite a few films, including a turn as Santa in Life With Mikey and as a magical sprite in Simply Irresistible.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/christopher-durang/88491/biography (198 words)

	Metromix. Waiting for the next life with Christopher Durang (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Perversely, Durang always works best when accompanied by the most truthful, rooted kind of production, and this show tends to jump around on a strangely dark stage, retreating into its weird, jigsaw puzzlelike set as if the show were afraid of peeking out into the full light of day.
		In many ways, Kimbrough is the consummate Durang actress because she's sufficiently acerbic to deliver his satire and sufficiently vulnerable to transmit his pain.
		Kimbrough, a veteran Chicago actress, is in rare, feisty form here, spitting out those Durang bons mots like lethal weapons, and kicking and screaming her way, with dignity, through the absurd anguish of several lives.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /reviews/critics/mmx-grt2frtcf.1nov21,1,7202339.story (535 words)

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		Steven L. Krumlauf¹s ³Live from Jerusalem² is a dramatic retelling of the arrest and trial of Jesus Christ, as seen through the camera lens of a TV news network.
		Christopher Durang¹s ³ Dentity Crisis² is the story of a young schizophrenic trapped in a house where insanity is denied.
		The final play is Christopher Durang¹s ³For Whom the Southern Belles Tolls,² a hilarious spoof of Tennessee Williams¹ ³The Glass Menagerie.²
	www.montclair.edu /pages/publications/News/PastNews/1998/May/NewsRelease0598play.html (546 words)

	Christopher Durang News - Topix
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		NORTH HOLLYWOOD A self righteous nun and an accidental actor share the stage with mixed results in an evening of one acts written by Christopher Durang and presented by the Vagabond Players Theatre Company.
		The William Inge Theatre Festival will honor playwright Christopher Durang as part of its 27th annual season.
	www.topix.net /who/christopher-durang (756 words)

	Christopher Durang Photos (BroadwayWorld.com)
		Caption: Christopher Gattelli (Choreographer), Sheryl Kaller (Director), Christopher Durang, Peter Melnick and Fred Lassen (Musical Director)
		Caption: Christopher Durang, Willa Kim (Costumes), Andrew Leynse and Elysabeth Kleinhans (59E59 Theaters, President)
		Caption: Jo Bonney, Julia Stiles, Oscar Eustis, Molly Pearson, Chad Beckim, Sigourney Weaver, and Christopher Durang
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	Christopher Durang Photos - Christopher Durang News - Christopher Durang Information
		Christopher Durang Photos - Christopher Durang News - Christopher Durang Information
		Kristin and Aldo try to convince hard-hearted Tommy to fund the city zoo's Monkey Island, a haven for all the underprivileged simians in the neighborhood, but when he doesn't take to the idea, Kristin sends in the chimps to do the talking.
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	Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon Extends at Playwrights Horizons, Broadway.com Buzz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon Extends at Playwrights Horizons, Broadway.com Buzz
		Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon Extends at Playwrights Horizons
		Playwrights Horizons has extended the limited engagement of its production of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon by two weeks.
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	Christopher Durang Biography / Profile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although Christopher Durang is known primarily for his plays, he has written a screenplay, Beyond Therapy (1987).
		Christopher Durang belongs to a tradition of fl humorists and fabulists who first emerged in the 1950’s with the novelists Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Berger.
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	Christopher Durang Volume I: 27 Short Plays
		I think he is the most brillian playwright alive, I absolutely idolize him, I'm applying to the college he is a professor at in the hopes of getting a class with him.
		Christopher Durang was the playwright of choice for my high school speech team when it came to picking pieces for ensembles or duos.
		Infuriated by his actress wife's latest play, Agnes is Odd, where she plays an insane nun who babbles incoherently in Latin, he freaks out and supposedly kills her, only for his "good" brother Frankie to find out that she's not really dead, and then she falls in love with him.
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	Christopher Durang Explains It All for You: 6 Plays (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While bowing to David Ives, still, there is no more hysterical, poignantly funny playwright than Christopher Durang, who manages to elevate what would what appear to be slapstick to the heights of masterfully absurd wit.
		From the comically dark Nature and Purpose of the Universe to the only slightly lighter-shade-of-fl Sister Mary Ignatius, During melds silly props, maniacal family members and erudite dialogue that makes it all seem that much richer.
		Except, perhaps, not long enough.lt;pgt;This is a book you can read literally in hours, but will probably turn to more than once.
	www.literature-reviews.com /Christopher_Durang_Explains_It_All_for_You_Six_Plays_0802132324.html (275 words)

	Amazon.com: Betty's Summer Vacation: Books: Christopher Durang (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MARRIAGE OF BETTE & BOO by Christopher Durang
		In this absurb comedy, Christopher Durang makes a bold statement about our violent society, our hunger for sensationlism, and how we have come to view human horror and tragedy as entertainment.
		But Durang "taking on" instant gratification through television is akin to the Lakers playing my college intramural team.
	www.amazon.com /Bettys-Summer-Vacation-Christopher-Durang/dp/0802136613 (1293 words)

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