Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy Starts Previews Off-Broadway

Life can be crazy. Therapy can help? The first New York revival of Tony nominee Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy begins performances off-Broadway March 11. Directed by Scott Alan Evans, the comedy will will play a limited engagement through April 19 at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. Opening night is set for March 25.

In Beyond Therapy, Prudence and Bruce are two urbanites seeking romance with the help of their psychiatrists, each of whom suggests the patients try personal ads. Discovering that the therapists may be more disturbed than Prudence and Bruce, complications ensue. The comedy is about the search for a meaningful relationship in an insane world and may provide the best therapy of all—laughter.

The production stars Mark Alhadeff, Cynthia Darlow, Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Liv Rooth, Karl Kenzler and Michael Schantz.

Beyond Therapy premiered off-Broadway in 1981. Directed by Jerry Zaks, the cast included Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Collins and Jim Borrell. The 1982 Broadway production, directed by John Madden, starred Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow. In 1987, Durang adapted the play for the screen with director Robert Altman. The film version starred Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson and Tom Conti.