Editing Christopher Durang (section)

==Personal life and death==
Durang lived in [[Pipersville, Pennsylvania]], with his husband, actor/playwright John Augustine.<ref name = Soloski/><ref name = Naila>{{Cite web|last=Naila|first=Francis|date=July 17, 2014|title=Erwinna playwright Durang takes the stage in his Tony-winning play|url=https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/article/20140717/LIFESTYLE/307179664|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620015757/https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/article/20140717/LIFESTYLE/307179664|archive-date=June 20, 2021|access-date=June 20, 2021|website=[[Burlington County Times]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://playmakersrep.org/durang-on-chekhovdurang-on-durang/|title = Durang on Chekhov/Durang on Durang|website = [[PlayMakers Repertory Company]]|accessdate = July 20, 2022|archive-date = July 7, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220707113819/https://playmakersrep.org/durang-on-chekhovdurang-on-durang/|url-status = live}}</ref> They began their relationship in 1986 and were legally married in 2014.<ref name = Naila/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/theater/newsandfeatures/christopher-durang-explores-the-afterlife-including-his-own.html|title=Christopher Durang Explores the Afterlife, Including His Own|author=Dinitia Smith|author-link=Dinitia Smith|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 26, 2005|access-date=November 19, 2018|archive-date=November 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119214407/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/theater/newsandfeatures/christopher-durang-explores-the-afterlife-including-his-own.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Durang was at first reluctant to discuss his homosexuality publicly, concerned that he would be diminished by the label "gay playwright." But in 1988, he told ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]'' that he felt the need to be more public about his gay identity given the intense homophobia surrounding the [[HIV/AIDS activism|AIDS crisis]] and the Supreme Court's decision in ''[[Bowers v. Hardwick]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schildcrout |first=Jordan |date=July–August 2024 |title=Christopher Durang, Satirist of Everything Holy |url=https://glreview.org/article/christopher-durang-satirist-of-everything-holy/ |journal=The Gay & Lesbian Review |pages=6–7}}</ref>  

In 2016, Durang was diagnosed with [[logopenic progressive aphasia]], which is thought to be caused by a form of [[Alzheimer's disease]]; as with all forms of aphasia, it primarily impeded his ability to process language, though it subsequently affected his short-term memory. Durang gradually withdrew from public life before his condition was publicly announced in 2022.<ref name = Fierberg/>

Durang died from complications of aphasia at his Pennsylvania home on April 2, 2024, at the age of 75.<ref name = Evans/>