Christopher Durang, Playwright Known for Deliriously, Deliciously Dark Farce, Dies at 75
The writer, who won a Tony for penning a late-career sendup of Chekhov, was diagnosed with aphasia in 2016.
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The writer, who won a Tony for penning a late-career sendup of Chekhov, was diagnosed with aphasia in 2016.
Christopher Durang, Tony-winning playwright for 2012's 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,' has died at 75.
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 …
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.