
The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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Christopher Durang’s brilliant, blisteringly funny dark comedy masterpiece 'The Marriage of Bette and Boo' exploded onto the Off-Broadway stage at the Public Theater's Newman Theater in 1985, running for an accomplished seasonal residency and sweeping multiple major awards. The non-linear, textually rich domestic farce chronicles the turbulent multi-decade relationship, severe alcoholism, and structural decay of an eccentric contemporary family, tracking a husband and wife through a series of hilarious, deeply poignant vignettes narrated by their adult son. Directed by Jerry Zaks, the historic original Public Theater company starred Joan Allen, Durang himself, and Mercedes Ruehl.

