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Christopher Durang

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Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. [1]

68 relations: American Theater Hall of Fame, Baby with the Bathwater, Bachelor of Arts, Bertolt Brecht, Betty's Summer Vacation, Beyond Therapy, Beyond Therapy (film), Billy Magnussen, Bomb (magazine), Broadway theatre, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Catholic Church, Catholic school, Child abuse, David Hyde Pierce, Delbarton School, Dogma, Dramatists Guild of America, English studies, Genevieve Angelson, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard University, Homosexuality, Housesitter, Internet Broadway Database, Juilliard School, Kristine Nielsen, Laughing Wild, Master of Fine Arts, McCarter Theatre, Miss Witherspoon, Montclair, New Jersey, Morristown, New Jersey, Mr. North, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, New Providence, New Jersey, New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Obie Award, Off-Broadway, PBS, PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, Penn & Teller Get Killed, Playbill, Playwright, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Altman, Saturday Night Live, Screenplay, Shalita Grant, Sigourney Weaver, ..., Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Tennessee Williams, The Actor's Nightmare, The Cowboy Way (film), The Glass Menagerie, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The New York Times, The Secret of My Success (1987 film), The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Theatre of the Absurd, Titanic (play), Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Tony Award for Best Play, U.S. 1 (newspaper), United States, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein, Yale School of Drama. Expand index (18 more) »

American Theater Hall of Fame

The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972.

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Baby with the Bathwater

Baby with the Bathwater is a play by Christopher Durang about a boy named Daisy, his influences, and his eventual outcome.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Betty's Summer Vacation

Betty's Summer Vacation is a play by Christopher Durang, which premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1999.

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Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy is a play by Christopher Durang.

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Beyond Therapy (film)

Beyond Therapy is a 1987 American comedy film written and directed by Robert Altman, based on the play of the same name by Christopher Durang.

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Billy Magnussen

William Gregory Magnussen (born April 20, 1985) is an American actor who has appeared on stage, television and film.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Bucks County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Catholic school

Catholic schools are parochial schools or education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Child abuse

Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or other caregiver.

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David Hyde Pierce

David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor, director, and comedian.

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Delbarton School

Delbarton School is a private all-male Roman Catholic college-preparatory school in Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, educating young men in seventh through twelfth grades.

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Dogma

The term dogma is used in pejorative and non-pejorative senses.

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Dramatists Guild of America

The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market.

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English studies

English studies (usually called simply English) is an academic discipline taught in primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in English-speaking countries; it is not to be confused with English taught as a foreign language, which is a distinct discipline.

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Genevieve Angelson

Genevieve Angelson (born Genevieve Rose Angelson; April 13, 1987) is an American TV actress known for playing Caitlin Hobart on House of Lies, Det.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Housesitter

Housesitter is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein, and starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, informally referred to as Juilliard and located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.

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Kristine Nielsen

Kristine E. Nielsen (born May 28, 1955) is an American actress known for her work on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

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Laughing Wild

Laughing Wild is a 1987 play written by Christopher Durang.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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McCarter Theatre

McCarter Theatre Center is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Miss Witherspoon

Miss Witherspoon is a play written by Christopher Durang.

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Montclair, New Jersey

Montclair is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown is a town and county seat of Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Mr. North

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Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge

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New Providence, New Jersey

New Providence is a borough on the northwestern edge of Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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New York Innovative Theatre Awards

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (IT Awards) were founded in 2004.

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Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award

The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards, commonly referred to as the PEN/Laura Pels Award, is awarded by the PEN American Center.

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Penn & Teller Get Killed

Penn & Teller Get Killed is a 1989 black comedy film directed by Arthur Penn starring the magicians Penn & Teller.

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Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program.

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Shalita Grant

Shalita Grant (born August 28, 1988) is an American actress on NCIS: New Orleans, portraying NCIS Agent Sonja Percy, and also on Mercy Street, portraying Aurelia Johnson, a stoic "contraband," or escaped slave.

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Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949), known professionally as Sigourney Weaver, is an American actress.

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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You is a play by Christopher Durang.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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The Actor's Nightmare

The Actor's Nightmare is a short comic play by Christopher Durang.

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The Cowboy Way (film)

The Cowboy Way is a 1994 American action comedy crime film directed by Gregg Champion and starring Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland.

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The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.

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The Nature and Purpose of the Universe

The Nature and Purpose of the Universe is a play written by Christopher Durang, first produced in 1975.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Secret of My Success (1987 film)

The Secret of My Success (sometimes stylized as The Secret of My Succe$s) is a 1987 American comedy film produced and directed by Herbert Ross, and starring Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater.

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The Vietnamization of New Jersey

The Vietnamization of New Jersey (subtitled "A American Tragedy") is a 1976 play written by American playwright Christopher Durang.

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Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd (théâtre de l'absurde) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work.

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Titanic (play)

Titanic is a one-act play written by Christopher Durang.

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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical is awarded to librettists of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical play.

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Tony Award for Best Play

The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City.

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U.S. 1 (newspaper)

U.S. 1, also known as U.S. 1: Princeton's Business & Entertainment Journal is a weekly newspaper in the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metropolitan area, with a circulation of nearly 20,000.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a comedy play written by Christopher Durang.

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Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright.

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Yale School of Drama

The Yale School of Drama (also known as YSD) is a graduate professional school of Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Durang

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