Between Riverside and Crazy

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.

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