The Boston Globe, October 18th, 1998
The people in Christopher Durang's play "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" are not a happy lot. They suffer. The husband, from alcoholism. The wife, from a succession of stillborn children, from her husband, and from an inability to perceive reality. A grandfather, from a debilitating stroke. The wife's sisters, from a variety of failures. The play is not without humor -- the term "dark comedy" is not inappropriate -- but in this family's case familiarity breeds contempt. "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" (it's pronounced Bette as in Midler, not Davis) was first presented by Joseph Papp at the New ...
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