BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!

It was just announced that Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy has earned the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play ran at the Atlantic Theatre Company last summer and again at Second Stage Theatre in February.

Other finalists included: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks and Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison.

City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed -- and the Church won't leave him alone. For ex-cop and recent widower Walter "Pops" Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum in this dark comedy from the Tony nominated author of The Motherf*ucker with the Hat and Jesus Hopped the A Train. For Pops and Junior, it seems the Old Days are dead and gone -- after a lifetime living Between Riverside and Crazy.

Recent winners include: The Flick by Annie Baker (2014), Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar (2013), Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012), Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris (2011), Next to Normal, music byTom Kitt, book and lyrics byBrian Yorkey (2010), Ruined by Lynn Nottage (2009), August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (2008),

The Pulitzer Prizes, which are administered at Columbia University, were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.

The 19-member board is composed mainly of leading journalists or news executives from media outlets across the U.S., as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia's journalism school and the administrator of the prizes are nonvoting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members. The board is self-perpetuating in the election of members. Voting members may serve three terms of three years for a total of nine years.