Guirgis like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane is most interested in how grace transforms usThe New YorkerWritten with humor tenderness grit and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around himCity Hall is demanding more than his signature the Landlord wants him out the liquor store is closed and the Church wont leave him alone As excop and recent widower Walter Pops Washington struggles to hold on to one of the last great rentstabilized apartments on Riverside Drive he must also contend 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 CrazyStephen Adly Guirgis other plays include The Motherfucker with the Hat Jesus Hopped the A Train Our Lady of 121st Street In Arabia Wed All Be Kings The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Little Flower of East Orange Den of Thieves Race Religion Politics and Dominica The Fat Ugly Ho His play Between Riverside and Crazy won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015 He is a former coartistic director of LABryinth Theater Company He received the Yale WyndhamCampbell Prize a PENLaura Pels Award a Whiting Award and a fellowship from TCG in 2004