Fasten your seatbelts: There’s never a dull moment when Stephen Adly Guirgis is behind the mic!

We both loved Stephen’s latest play, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Between Riverside and Crazy.” The show is running at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway until Feb. 19. It’s also available as a simulcast until Feb. 12, which is fantastic news for our listeners around the country.

He was remarkably candid and we covered a lot ground in our chat: growing up in New York, what happened when he saw “Burn This,” working with the LAByrinth Theater Company, his enduring collaboration with Philip Seymour Hoffman. We also spent quality time discussing the play “Halfway B*****s Go Straight to Heaven,” which Elisabeth particularly loves.

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Follow Stephen on Twitter.

Elisabeth reviewed a couple of retro-oriented shows: Anthony Rapp’s “Without You” and Eduardo Machado’s “Not About Me.” Spoiler alert: She liked the puppet show “The Immortal Jellyfish Girl” a lot more.

Peter wrote about a version of “The Tempest” directed by Teller and Aaron Posner that features a Caliban played simultaneously — and Pilobolus-choreographed — by two actors.

Thanks to Christian Huygen for our theme music.

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