Playwright Christopher Durang, a Tony winner for 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,' dies at 75
Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died
NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Christopher Durang, a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with “Miss Witherspoon,” has died. He was 75.
Durang died Tuesday at his home in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, of complications from logopenic primary progressive aphasia, said his agent, Patrick Herold. In 2022, it was revealed Durang had been diagnosed in 2016 with the disorder, a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease.
Durang's plays were infused with a smart, high-octane sense of absurdism. His works include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,” ″Baby with the Bathwater,” ″The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” “Betty’s Summer Vacation” and ″Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge.”
“I am one of those people who laughed at not funny things,” Durang told the crowd at a Dramatists Guild conference in 2013. “If you watch the adults around you make the same mistake 20 times in a row, at a certain point you want to jump out the window or you laugh. I was one of the ones who laughed.”
