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TheaterMania talked to Stew about composing music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and other upcoming projects (TheaterMania)...

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Stew wrote the score, including five new songs, for A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare on the Sound, which presents free outdoor summer theater (the production will be performed June 16th - 28rh and July 4th - 12th in Connecticut parks along the Long Island Sound). The music has been recorded and will be released on July 21st. Stew has also joined the artistic advisory board of the company (Hartford Courant | Playbill 1 | 2 | The New York Times 1 | 2 | EURweb)...

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On August 18th, Stew + Heidi will join Bill T. Jones in discussing artistic partnerships in pARTners, part of Summer Scoops Live with The Wall Street Journal series at the Walter Reade Theater (GlobeNewswire )...

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On August 19th, as part of Lincoln Center's Out of Doors concert series, Stew + Heidi will present The Broadway Problem, which will consist of deconstructed Broadway tunes as well as their own music (The New York Times | TheaterMania | Ghostlight)...

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The Asphalt Orchestra, a new marching band developed by Bang on a Can, will premiere a work commissioned for Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary written by Stew + Heidi on August 5th as part of the Out of Doors concert series...

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PBS has acquired Spike Lee's film of Passing Strange for its Great Performances series. The film will air in 2010 on PBS stations, but producers are also exploring a limited theatrical release for the summer or fall of 2009 (Variety | TheaterMania | Box Office)...

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Spike Lee's film of Passing Strange screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC on May 2nd, followed by a conversation with Stew, Heidi and Spike (Tribeca Film Festival | BlackVoices | Playbill | CNN | Hollywood Reporter | indieWIRE | EURweb | Screen Daily)...

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On the April 24th episode of KPCC Public Radio's Dinner Party Download, Stew pondered art vs. reality, Spike Lee and poor white boys with baseball bats. LISTEN HERE...

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Stew + Heidi performed Pastry Shop (accompanied by Nile Rodgers) in the March 25th concert event Breaking The Silence, Beating The Drum, a co-presentation of the Culture Project and the United Nations. The one-night-only performance was part of the U.N.'s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Other participants included Bill T. Jones, Liev Schreiber, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Sarah Jones (the United Nations | the Culture Project | Playbill)...

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The film of Passing Strange was one of the 108 films screened at the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas on March 17th as part of the Premiere Spotlight program. Spike Lee held a Q+A after the screening (Variety | Hollywood Reporter | indieWIRE)...

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