MARIA-CHRISTINA OLIVERAS

But it’s the introduction of a character in the second act, the enigmatic Church Lady (Maria-Christina Oliveras), who epiphanically propels Between Riverside and Crazy towards its forced conclusion… It’s an extraordinarily well-acted scene that Henderson and Oliveras build to a near show-stopping climax.

Maria-Christina Oliveras as Church Lady gives a performance that has to be seen to be believed. It is outrageous in the most flattering of ways.

That is until one of those visits revitalizes him in one way, but throws him down in another, thanks to the miraculous visitation from this one particularly engaging Church Lady, played to the heavens by Maria-Christina Oliveras (Broadway’s Amélie).

Stephen McKinley Henderson gives the performance of his career... in one of the wackiest sex scenes on Broadway (shared with a churchgoer played with gusto by Maria-Christina Oliveras).

Maria-Christina Oliveras as the shockingly unholy Church Lady, whose scene of “healing” is enhanced by Keith Parham’s evocative lighting.

Between Riverside and Crazy is filled with dramatic and comedic surprises and twists, like the vivid scene in which a visiting church woman (a terrific Maria-Christina Olivera) manages to combine the highly sexual with the intensely spiritual in her ministration to Walter of God’s love.