Christopher Durang’s theatrical specialty is a kind of gleeful comic exaggeration that falls somewhere between farce and satire, between mischief and mayhem, in that territory that Chekhov referred to as “vaudeville.” Durang is an equal-opportunity lampooner; he has sent up Russian literature (“The Idiots . . . (Subscription required.)
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on November 19, 2012