Christopher Durang, one of American theater’s most accomplished and acclaimed playwrights, has been diagnosed with logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare disorder of language which, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. According to the Weill Institute For Neurosciences, persons with logopenic variant ...

Difficulty finding words or the habit of substituting them with others that are similar semantically – such as knife and cutter – or phonologically – such as knife and wife – are usually the first ...