Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

He lives in Bucks County with his partner John Augustine; they have been together for more than 20 years. In film
Durang has denounced the Robert Altman 1987 film adaptation of Beyond Therapy calling it "horrific" and accusing Altman of totally rewriting the script "so that all psychology is thrown out the window and the characters dash around acting crazy but with literally no behavioral logic underneath. in playwriting from Yale School of Drama.

His work was especially popular in the 1980s.