It seems safe to say that playwright Christopher Durang is no fan of the Catholic Church. But where would his plays be without it? Who but a cradle Catholic schooled before Vatican II could marry the sublime and the ridiculous as gleefully as Durang does in his dark comedies? Take, for example, the scene from Laughing Wild in which the Infant of Prague appears as a guest on an (...)
Stage
Bleak House
‘THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO'
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