Star Stephen McKinley Henderson gives the performance of the Broadway season.
Stephen McKinley Henderson gives the performance of the Broadway season as Walter in"Between Riverside and Crazy."
But there are no carols, gifts and cocoa to match the mirth outside right now in Times Square, because Stephen Adly Guirgis’ dramedy is set during a New York summer. The characters, who live in Upper Manhattan, just haven’t bothered to lug their conifer out to the curb. It’s ho-ho-hot outside.Two hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission. At the Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th St.
Walter is a retired NYPD cop and a widower with an adult son named Junior . He lives with Junior and his friend Oswaldo in a massive, rent-controlled home on Riverside Drive that clearly isn’t cleaned much.The former officer is both sweet and salty. Oswaldo and Junior are ex-convicts and still-generous Walter lets them live with him rent-free. But the man who everybody calls “dad” annoyedly waves off hugs and calls out peoples’ BS any chance he gets.
Guirgis’ compassionate play, directed with great care by Austin Pendleton, is also wildly funny — actually more hilarious than many recent flat-out comedies — and devilishly inappropriate. His dialogue rightly doesn’t try to clean up how cops and convicts might talk and it also establishes that nobody here is a saint.Common takes on his first major stage gig, successfully and admirably, in Broadway’s smallest house at just 597 seats and in a supporting role.
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