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The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Lesley Aalexander
August 3, 2008, 9:34.45 pm ET

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Back in 1985 when Christopher Durang’s "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" first debuted examining family angst in this off-beat style was simply received as theatre of the absurd. Nowadays, it’s taken for granted that weird irony melds into life’s daily tasks. An unflinching taste for the macabre, and humor born out of other’s pain, is commonplace. Such is the environment that introduces "The Marriage of Bette and Boo", now in revival at the Roundabout, to a whole new audience. more


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