Between Riverside and Crazy

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"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.

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instanceOf play
stage work
author Stephen Adly Guirgis
awardReceived Lucille Lortel Award
surface form: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play

New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
surface form: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
BroadwayProducer Second Stage Theater
BroadwayTheatre Helen Hayes Theatre
surface form: Hayes Theater
BroadwayTransferYear 2022
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
directorOfPremiereProduction Austin Pendleton
exploresTheme forgiveness
institutional racism
loyalty
urban change
featuresCharacter Church Lady
Detective O'Connor
Junior
Lieutenant Caro
Lulu
Oswaldo
Walter "Pops" Washington
genre dark comedy
drama
language English
mainCharacter Walter "Pops" Washington
originalLanguage English
originalSetting Manhattan
New York City
plotSummary A retired New York City cop fights eviction from his rent-controlled apartment while clashing with family, friends, and former colleagues.
premiereCity New York City
premiereCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
premiereType Off-Broadway premiere
premiereVenue Atlantic Theater Company
premiereYear 2014
producedBy Atlantic Theater Company
Second Stage Theater
protagonistOccupation retired New York City police officer
PulitzerPrizeCategory Drama
PulitzerPrizeYear 2015
settingDetail rent-controlled apartment on Riverside Drive
subject addiction
faith
family
gentrification
housing insecurity
police brutality
race
theatricalStyle black comedy
realism
writer Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Stephen Adly Guirgis notableWork Between Riverside and Crazy
Stephen McKinley Henderson notableWork Between Riverside and Crazy
Walter "Pops" Washington appearsIn Between Riverside and Crazy
Walter "Pops" Washington centralRoleIn Between Riverside and Crazy
Walter "Pops" Washington firstAppearance Between Riverside and Crazy
this entity surface form: Between Riverside and Crazy (2014 stage premiere)
Detective O'Connor appearsIn Between Riverside and Crazy
Lieutenant Caro workFeaturedIn Between Riverside and Crazy
Lieutenant Caro fictionalUniverse Between Riverside and Crazy