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1. One of the most celebrated new American plays.
Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and the 2015 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play.
2. L. Peter Callender makes his American Stage debut as an actor.
As an actor, he has performed coast to coast over the years in over 15 regional theaters and has appeared on Broadway in PRELUDE TO A KISS (Helen Hayes Theater). Mr. Callender has also directed three critically acclaimed and award-winning American Stage productions (JITNEY, JOE TURNER’S COME & GONE and A RAISIN IN THE SUN) and will be returning in January to direct Dominique Morisseau’s PIPELINE.
3. Powerfully relevant Tampa Bay premiere by one of America’s top playwrights.
BETWEEN RIVERSIDE & CRAZY at its core asks us to examine what makes us who we are. Is it our jobs, our families, or our actions? Stephen Adly Guirgis, winner of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, tackles these complex questions in this play with nuance humor and heart. His critically-acclaimed plays have been produced both Off-Broadway and on Broadway (MOTHERF#$%! WITH THE HAT) and in the UK.
“I’ve always believed that great theatre not only entertains, it makes you feel A-WAKE. Whether a play wakes you emotionally, intellectually, spiritually or viscerally, the most meaningful work stirs us. Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer-Winning work, BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY, with its compelling characters and its visceral voice, is teeming with life. Indeed, it is one of those rare works that has the power to wake us on each of those levels.” – Stephanie Gularte, Producing Artistic Director
Stephen Adly Guirgis’ BETWEEN RIVERSIDE & CRAZY will have previews start on October 3 and opens on October 5. The show will run through November 4.
