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The Tony-winning writer was diagnosed with aphasia in 2016.

Christopher Durang, one of American's most accomplished playwrights whose works include Tony winner Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, had died.

Christopher Durang, one of American’s most acclaimed and accomplished playwrights whose works like Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and the Tony-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike were as incisive as they were absurdly comic, died Tuesday night at his home in Bucks County, PA. He was 75. The …

Christopher Durang, the writer of 'Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You' and 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,' dies at 75.

In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown, jumping from sex to metaphysics to serial killers to psychology.

Mr. Durang was a playwright and lyricist known for his outrageous and often-absurdist comedic flair.

Christopher Durang, the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony-winning playwright of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, known for his darkly humorous trea

The writer, a master of satire and black comedy, also was an actor who appeared in such films as "The Secret of My Success," "The Cowboy Way" and "The Butcher's Wife."

Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was…

Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died.