Stephen Adly Guirgis: 5 books

"By far the most accomplished and affecting work from the gifted Mr. Guirgis, a prolific and erratic chronicler of marginal lives."—The New York Times "The lifeblood of Guirgis's dialogue is the most expressive cursing since Shakespeare."—The Guardian As an expert...

Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between...

When Therese Marie arrives in the emergency room of a small hospital in the Bronx, suffering from hypothermia and in shock, no one there knows her story. To the doctors and nurses, she is just another abandoned elderly woman who can't even tell them her name. But Therese Marie's dementia is not all...

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. Expected to be revived in a high-profile NYC production (possibly on Broadway), and likely to be produced at major theaters around the country. Between Riverside and Crazy premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company (Off-Broadway, New York) in the summer...

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud religious debate" (Toby Zinman, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical...