Search results
May 19, 2023 · In the play, Pops, a retired NYC police officer who is recently widowed, and his son Junior, who is recently paroled, share an apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. As they face eviction from...
May 14, 2024 · Between Riverside and Crazy. It’s ‘Antigone’ with rent control as Danny Sapani stars as an embittered ex-NYPD cop in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s entertaining Pulitzer winner. Tuesday 14 May ...
May 14, 2024 · Investigating intersecting themes of grief, race, shame and addiction, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ knotty dramedy is overstuffed and tonally inconsistent – yet still gripping.
Dec 26, 2019 · How Stephen Adly Guirgis writes some of the best dialogue in American theater. The Pulitzer-winning playwright’s latest, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, returns to his themes of grace...
May 14, 2024 · The revelation that Pops’s wife Dolores died at Christmas belatedly explains the mouldering, decorated pine in the corner. Guirgis lets his characters show themselves as they hope to be seen ...
May 14, 2024 · Watching this London debut of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, it feels extraordinary that it has taken a decade for Between Riverside and Crazy to reach these shores. Michael Longhurst’s sizzling, thrillingly acted production for Hampstead ensures that it was well worth the wait.
Oct 21, 2019 · Review: Soulful, sorrowful performance propels Pulitzer winner ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’. The grittiness of playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’ street-smart comedies has sometimes made...
