Stephen Adly Guirgis has been hailed as one of the most promising playwrights at work in America today. A masterful poet of the downtrodden, his plays portray life on New York's hardscrabble streets in a manner both tender and unflinching, while continually exploring the often startling gulf between who we are and how we perceive ourselves. Gathered in this volume is his current off-Broadway hit, '' Our Lady of 121st Street,'' a comic portrait of the graduates of a Harlem Catholic school reunited at the funeral of a beloved teacher, along with his two previous plays: the philosophical jailhouse drama'' Jesus Hopped the A Train'' and'' In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings,'' an'' Iceman Cometh ''for the Giuliani era that looks at the effect of Times Square's gentrification on its less desirable inhabitants.