"Mighty fine!" -- Times Record News

Warm-hearted, irreverent, zany and brilliantly imaginative, the play teems with humanity and humor as it examines the plight of three young Mississippi sisters betrayed by their passions. Set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of their grandfather’s death. Lenny, the oldest, is unmarried and facing slim marital prospects; Meg is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband. Their problems are grave and yet, somehow, hilarious. In the end, the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true, touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended. CRIMES OF THE HEART is the winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.