Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Betty's Summer Vacation is a play by Christopher Durang.In many ways, this play was a “comeback” hit for Durang. His career flourished in the late seventies and early eighties with off-Broadway smashes like The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. By the late eighties, critics grew unkind, and Durang turned more to his career as a “cameo” in a variety of moderately successful films. In 1995, Manhattan Theatre Club produced Durang/Durang, an evening of very well received, new, short pieces by Durang. This was the appetizer to a comeback, and theatre fans were anxiously awaiting a main course.The main course came in the form of a Broadway opening . . . Sex and Longing, a critical disaster of monumental proportions. Durang lay dormant for a while, heading up alongside Marsha Norman the Playwriting program at Juilliard. On February 19, 1999, Betty’s Summer Vacation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons.. }
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- Betty's_Summer_Vacation abstract "Betty's Summer Vacation is a play by Christopher Durang.In many ways, this play was a “comeback” hit for Durang. His career flourished in the late seventies and early eighties with off-Broadway smashes like The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. By the late eighties, critics grew unkind, and Durang turned more to his career as a “cameo” in a variety of moderately successful films. In 1995, Manhattan Theatre Club produced Durang/Durang, an evening of very well received, new, short pieces by Durang. This was the appetizer to a comeback, and theatre fans were anxiously awaiting a main course.The main course came in the form of a Broadway opening . . . Sex and Longing, a critical disaster of monumental proportions. Durang lay dormant for a while, heading up alongside Marsha Norman the Playwriting program at Juilliard. On February 19, 1999, Betty’s Summer Vacation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons.".