Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (TCG Edition)

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Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven received its world premiere Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in December 2019. Halfway Bitches was a New York Times Critic's Pick and was named one of the best plays of 2019 by The Wrap. Guirgis' play Between Riverside and Crazy was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company in New York. His 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. His plays have been produced throughout the world. Guirgis has been awarded 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. He co-created and executive produced Netflix's The Get Down with Baz Lurmann, which aired in 2016.

Stephen Adly Guirgis's other plays include Between Riverside and Crazy (Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The Motherfucker with the Hat, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Our Lady of 121st Street, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. He is a former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His other awards include the Yale Windham-Campbell Prize, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, a Whiting Award, and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.

"A vibrant and expansive comic drama... Prepare to be surrounded -- and, ultimately, to surrender. It wasn't long before I succumbed to the surging vitality and diversity of its wayward throng of lost souls. Guirgis makes sure that every person onstage is filled with the contradictions that are part and parcel of being human." -- "New York Times" "Bursting with emotional life. The characters' rich humanity comes through loud and clear onstage, forcing us to confront a reality we might otherwise choose to avoid." -- "Hollywood Reporter" "Halfway Bitches is not only worth your time, but leaves you wanting more."-- "TheaterMania" "Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Guirgis's rough-cut gem of a new play, is rich with revelation & barbed empathy." -- "New Yorker" "The funniest, saddest play of the year, with at least a dozen characters who go straight to your heart... A female Iceman Cometh for this century." -- "The Wrap"