<div>Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit,<i> Our Lady of 121st Street</i>, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama<i> Jesus Hopped the A Train</i> and<i> In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings</i>, an<i> Iceman Cometh </i>for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.<br></div> <div>Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit,<i> Our Lady of 121st Street</i>, a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama<i> Jesus Hopped the A Train</i> and<i> In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings</i>, an<i> Iceman Cometh </i>for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.<br></div>