Park Square Theatre was planning to produce the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play
Between Riverside and Crazy in 2023, shortly after its Broadway premiere, when they ran into financial issues and had to cancel half of that season and all of the next one. But they came back last summer with a new Artistic Director, Stephen DiMenna, who has long been trying to stage this play (
read more about that journey here). It has finally arrived as the final show in Park Square's excellent comeback season, and it was worth the wait. The well-written family dramedy that deals with gentrification, racism, drug addiction, and policing has been perfectly cast with #TCTheater favorites and newcomers, on an incredibly detailed and lived-in NYC apartment set.
Between Riverside and Crazy plays Thursdays through Sundays until June 8 in the Historic Hamm Building in downtown St. Paul.
