Common to make Broadway debut with ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’

Eight years after Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play made a splash off-Broadway, the production will come to the Hayes Theater starting in December with much of the original cast intact.

“Between Riverside and Crazy” is a dark comedy that follows the recently paroled Junior and his ex-cop and recent widower father, Walter “Pops” Washington (Henderson). Pops is trying to hold on to his apartment, one of the last rent-stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive. They must contend with City Hall, the landlord, old wounds, and sketchy neighbors as they realize that the old days are behind them.

Common, a three-time Grammy winner, won an Oscar in 2015 when his and John Legend’s “Glory” took home Best Original Song. Two years later, the rapper scored his Emmy when his “Letter to the Free,” from the Netflix documentary 13th, won Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.