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The Marriage of Bette and Boo , ChristopherDurang’s dark 1985 comedy about his own nutty family that has received a sparkling revival at the Laura Pels Theatre, is a peculiar pleasure. Mr. Durang has furtively written a tragedy disguised as mad farce. His famously absurdist comedy is good-natured and grotesque, and awfully sad, especially when it becomes alarmingly clear that...
Durang is the author of plays that skewer religious orthodoxy, heterosexual nuptials and the afterlife. An Off Broadway revival of his darkly autobiographical play "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" directed by Walter Bobbie and starring Victoria Clark and John Glover, opens July 13 at the Roundabout Theater.
Best known for his work from the 1980s, Mr. Durang, 59, these days teaches playwriting at Juilliard, blogs for The Huffington Post and has a new play, "Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them," which is to have its premiere at the Public Theater next spring. He lives in Bucks County, Pa., with John Augustine, also a writer. "My relationship with my partner has lasted 23 years, and...
Tony-winning actor John Glover talks about the revival of ChristopherDurang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" at the Roundabout, and how he grappled with the distinctly unpleasant aspects of his character, based upon Durang's own grandfather. He also talks about why he found the prospect of teaching more daunting than acting; how he's managed to maintain a steady diet of theatre...
I would like to talk about ChristopherDurang's excellent 1985 play, The Marriage of Bette & Boo —currently playing in a mostly excellent production by the Roundabout Theatre Company and directed by Walter Bobbie—without being overly impressed by the playwright's originally intrepid satirical takes on Catholicism, alcoholism, miscarriages or the (now over-diagnosed) "dysfunctional family."...
It's time again for another edition of Cafe Theatre , the collection of short plays produced locally several times a year by Summit impresario Dave Hoffman. This summer's production, again upstairs at Tierney, includes seven shorts, including "The Funeral Parlor" by ChristopherDurang. The show runs Thursday through Saturday, 7:30 pm, this weekend and next. Coffee and sweets are available...
FEW plays are as darkly funny, or fun nily dark, as "The Marriage of Bette and Boo," ChristopherDurang's 1985 autobiographical play that was either the result of too much or too little therapy. In the course of 33 short scenes totaling little more...
The panel of theatre professionals - playwright Michael J. Chepiga ("Getting and Spending"), choreographer Graciela Daniele ("Ragtime"), playwright/director Christopher Durang ("Sex and Longing"), director Garry Hynes ("The Beauty Queen of Leenane"), and director Joe Mantello ("Corpus Christi") - discuss how they got their start, auditioning actors, controversy surrounding a play, and taking on alternate...
