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“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.
“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
“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
“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
“Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Guirgis’s rough-cut gem of a new play, is rich with revelation & barbed empathy.”―New Yorker
“Halfway Bitches is not only worth your time, but leaves you wanting more.”―TheaterMania
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.