Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Tcg Edition)

＂Guirgis, a lifelong New Yorker and a properly profane bard of the city, is a wizard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast...Guirgis’s rough-cut gem of a play is rich with revelation and barbed empathy.＂ --Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker

Stephen Adly Guirgis brings his prodigious gifts for exploring the lives of social outcasts to new heights in this play about the inner workings of a women’s halfway house in New York City, where the unmoored residents struggle with addiction, abuse, and mental illness. Between daily therapy sessions, they clash with the staff and each other, form alliances, and fall in love. Harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven roaringly brings to life the experiences of women who society has tried to shuffle out of sight and out of mind.

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. His play Between Riverside and Crazy was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other plays include The Motherfucker with the Hat (6 Tony nominations, including Best Play), Den of Thieves, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the A Train, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Little Flower of East Orange. He co-created and executive produced Netflix’s The Get Down with Baz Luhrmann. Other awards include the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Steinberg Award, PEN/Laura Pels Award, Whiting Award, TCG fellowship, Fringe First Award, NY Drama Critics Circle, L.A. Drama Critics Prize, and a Lucille Lortel Award.