The playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, who grew up Catholic, doesn’t mean for religion to intrude upon his plays. “It’s really not intentional, other than just the fact that I grew up Catholic,” he has said. “It’s hard to get the Catholic out of the Catholic. Even a bad Catholic.” See the 2014 play that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Between Riverside and Crazy. Walter Washington—a retired, widowed NYPD officer—drinks all day in his rent-controlled apartment (which his landlord is trying to run him out of). “Churchy Lady,” a Brazilian woman, uses the promise of communion to flirt with him. He already has a confessor, but instead of a priest it’s his recently paroled son, Junior. The show’s Broadway debut, barely altered from its Off-Broadway run, stars Common as Junior and Stephen McKinley Henderson as Washington. Austin Pendleton directs. —Jensen Davis