Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis is a nuanced, dark comedy about character and an incisive indictment of the systems that act upon us. The play, directed by Jeff Nahan will run at Detroit Repertory Theatre from May 17 through July 7.

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. For ex-cop & recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, when the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent controlled apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum, it seems the Old Days are dead and gone — after a lifetime living between Riverside and crazy.

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a longtime member of NYC’s LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include: the extended, sold-out run of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street (named one of the ten best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Olivier Nomination as London’s Best New Play, Barrymore Award, “Detroit Free Press” Best Play Award), and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Ten Best of ’99, “TimeOut New York,” critics pick, “TimeOut London”). All four plays were originally produced by LAByrinth, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and are published through Dramatists Play Service and by Faber & Faber. Stephen was awarded a 2004 TCG fellowship, attended the 2004 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by “Filmaker Magazine,” and appeared in “Entertainment Weekly’s” 2005 Summer Must List. He has received new play commissions from Manhattan Theater Club and South Coast Rep, is a member of New Dramatists and the MCC Playwright’s Coalition, and has contributed to “ESOPUS” magazine.

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