For His Tony-Nominated Play, Stephen Adly Guirgis Wanted to Keep It in the Family

Playbill: Actor Stephen McKinley Henderson and playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis begin the telling of the Tony-nominated play Between Riverside and Crazy origin story the same way. Henderson had just had hip surgery and was walking with a cane. Guirgis visited him at his home in Buffalo and Henderson divulged that he was slowing down. It was just a year after Henderson had received his first Tony nomination for the 2010 revival of Fences and he was just in his early 60s, but he wasn’t feeling great and thinking of retiring.