Turning Off the Morning News
by Christopher Durang

"[A] brilliantly acerbic, absurdist comedy…Durang’s mastery of the sabre-edged one-liner is in top form…The writing…keeps us laughing so hard that it’s easy not to notice the seriousness beneath TURNING OFF THE MORNING NEWS. But make no mistake—this is one ballsy little play.” —Philadelphia Magazine. “[TURNING OFF THE MORNING NEWS] mixes the crazy-funny and the mortally dark...At the end, my laugh muscles were tired…and I wanted very much to see the play again.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer. “The best absurdist art has always been that which hews closer to the real than might seem comfortable, a standard by which…TURNING OFF THE MORNING NEWS shines…Durang has harnessed the absurd to offer a biting critique of the society that would be so quick to chuckle at his characters and their drives.” —NJ Advance Media. “This caustic comedy explores several of the playwright’s evergreen topics—religion, fractured families, and the roiling pain that hides beneath the gloss of suburban conformit"

— Broad Street Review