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Review: Between Riverside and Crazy is Crazy Good
December 19, 2022, 9:25.56 pm ET
Photo: Joan Marcus
By Brian Scott Lipton
For decades, Stephen McKinley Henderson has been given appetizer-sized parts on Broadway and made an entrée out of each of them. So, thank goodness that Stephen Adly Guirgis cooked up a three-course meal for Henderson in his exhilarating and poignant 2014 play “Between Riverside and Crazy,” which is now getting a long overdue Broadway production at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater under Austin Pendleton’s pitch-perfect direction. Continue reading...
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