Howard Miller takes a look at Between Riverside and Crazy at the Hayes Theater:
"Few can devise dialog as grippingly authentic as playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is able to do. It's as though he somehow breathes life into a set of characters, places them in some challenging situation, and takes notes as their voices spontaneously emerge. Funny, disturbing, insightful, deceitful, and even bonkers, they are who they are, consistent in their own way but also as unpredictable as anyone we might encounter in "real life." Possibly Guirgis's most complex creation is Walter "Pops" Washington, a Black retired policeman and the lead character in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, now making its Broadway debut at the Hayes Theatre, blessedly with most of its original Off-Broadway cast and its director, the seemingly indefatigable Austin Pendleton, on hand." |
