Between Riverside and Crazy
Broadway Show Tickets: Show Closed No Longer Available
Between Riverside and Crazy on Broadway: Show Is Now Closed
Regular Price Tickets
ORCH $129
MEZZ $109
Secondary Market
Between Riverside and Crazy Summary
- Show Status: Closed
- Genre: Play
- Between Riverside and Crazy is 120 minutes long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
- 8 Shows per week
- Previews Began: December 1, 2022
- Show Opened : December 19, 2022
- Show Closed: February 19, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about an Ex-Cop and his struggle to try to hang on to the last great rent stabilized apartment on Riverside Drive in NYC
What's Between Riverside and Crazy Like?
Walter “Pops” Washington is a retired NYPD cop and recent widower when takes in his recently paroled son Junior, who did a two year stretch upstate for grand larceny. They struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive in New York City.
Their odd houseguests, the bad blood with neighbors, the pressure from the fed-up landlord and a final showdown with City of New York comically documents the very New York experience of trying to hang onto a rent stabilized apartment in the midst of skyrocketing rents.
Is Between Riverside and Crazy Good for Kids?
Given the adult content and dark nature of the show, the show is recommended for children over the age of 16
Between Riverside and Crazy on Broadway Background
Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis that shines a light on a very New York City obsession about trying to find, and keep, a rent stabilized apartment on the Upper West Side, specifically Riverside Drive with views of the Hudson River.
Variety of Non-Broadway Performances
The show was written in 2014 and has appeared Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company's The Linda Gross Theater in 2014 and at the MTC's Tony Kiser Theatre in 2015. Both show received excellent reviews.
Florida Audiences Could Not Understand The Show
The American Stage Company, located in Saint Petersburg, FL, staged "Between Riverside and Crazy in 2018, but audiences there just could not understand the unique context of rent stabilization in NYC and how it drives many of the actions of its many residents to do things that may seem bizarre.
Theatre Information
Helen Hayes Theatre
240 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10019
New York, NY 10019
Seats:
597
Entrance:
44th street between 7th and 8th avenue
Theatre
Information
Between Riverside and Crazy Marquee
Gallery
Cast Members
- Walter “Pops” Washington
- Stephen McKinley Henderson
- Junior
- Common
- Lulu
- Rosal Colón
- Oswaldo
- Victor Almanzar
- Church Lady
- Liza Colón-Zayas
- Lieutenant Caro
- Michael Rispoli
- Detective Audry O’Connor
- Elizabeth Canavan
Production Credits
- Director
- Austin Pendleton
- Scenic Design
- Walt Spangler
Creative Team
- Writer
- Stephen Adly Guirgus