Born in New Jersey in 1949, Durang was educated in Catholic schools, graduated from Harvard, and then studied play-writing at the Yale School of Drama, where his collaborators included classmates ...Wendy Wasserstein and Albert In-naurato, as well as the acting students Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver. In Gay Community News, critic Michael Bron-ski lauded Sister Mary Ignatius as a necessary critique in an era when religious zealots gained political power and insisted that "private morality must be publicly enforced." When he took a small role in the Michael J. Fox film The Secret of My Success (1986), he met the actor and writer John Augustine, who became his lifelong partner and, in 2014, his husband.
New York City performances of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon, directed by Emily Mann at Playwrights Horizons, and an adaptation of The Color Purple on Broadway, choreographed by Donald Byrd ...and directed by Gary Griffin, are reviewed.
