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Christopher Durang To Receive Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award
Playwright Christopher Durang has been named the recipient of The Dramatists Guild of America’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, joining a prestigious roster of such past awardees as John Guare, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Miller. The Guild’s annual awards ceremony is scheduled for Monday, May 6, at New York City’s Sony Hall. No word yet on […]
Playwright Christopher Durang has been named the recipient of The Dramatists Guild of America’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, joining a prestigious roster of such past awardees as John Guare, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Miller. No word yet on whether the celebrated Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike playwright, who has been out of the public eye since a diagnosis of progressive aphasia was disclosed two years ago, will attend. Durang’s plays include Turning Off the Morning News; Why Torture Is Wrong And The People Who Love Them, Tony-winner Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike; A History of the American Film; Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Baby with the Bathwater; Laughing Wild; Miss Witherspoon; The Marriage of Bette and Boo; Sex and Longing; and others.
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