<div><b>Winner, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama</b><br><br>&quot;Completely compelling . . . Galvanizing but not importunate. You could cry (I did), but you are always free simply to laugh instead.&quot; Jesse Green,<i>New York</i><br><br>Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and the profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us. His empathetic, poetic tales of ex-cons, addicts, and other men whom society would label losers return us, again and again, to a world that Guirgis, by virtue of his particular religionthe church of the streetsilluminates with the bright and crooked light of his faith.” Hilton Als, New Yorker<br><br>&quot;A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.&quot; - Pulitzer Prize Citation<br><br>Written with humor, tenderness, grit and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis,<i>Between Riverside and Crazy</i> is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him.<br><br>City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed, and the Church won’t leave him alone. As ex-cop and recent widower Walter Pops” Washington struggles to hold on to one of the last great rent-stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive, he must also contend with with old wounds, new houseguests, and a final ultimatum. It seems the old days are dead and gone after a lifetime living between Riverside and Crazy.<br><br><b>Stephen Adly Guirgis</b>'s other plays include <i>Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train</i>,<i>Our Lady of 121st Street</i>, <i>In Arabia We'd All Be Kings</i>, <i>The Last Days of Judas Iscariot</i>,<i>The Little Flower of East Orange</i>, <i>Den of Thieves</i>, <i>Race Religion Politics</i>, and<i>Dominica: The Fat Ugly Ho</i>. He is a former co-artistic director of LABryinth Theater Company. Awards include the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award and a 2014 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.<br></div>