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Stew performs drunk at the Obies according to New York magazine. Watch the video of the performance here...
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Stew talks about music in the theater on MTV News. See the entire MTV News story about rock music on Broadway featuring Passing Strange here...
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Stew is scheduled to play the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
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Stew is tied with Anthony Newley and Elizabeth Swados as being the person with the most Tony nominations for a single show (4 nominations) in the history of the Tony Awards...
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Passing Strange was nominated for 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, with 4 nominations for Stew (Best Book – Musical, Best Original Score, Best Performance Lead Actor - Musical and Best Orchestrations) and two nominations for Heidi (Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations) (Tony Awards | The New York Times | Variety | San Francisco Chronicle | San Jose Mercury News | Broadway.com)...
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Stew, Heidi and Passing Strange win multiple Obie, Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards (see Passing Strange Online's News page for details)...
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Stew, Heidi and the Passing Strange cast appeared on The View on May 12th on ABC-TV performing a medley from the show (watch the performance here)...
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Passing Strange will be the first Broadway cast recording to be exclusively available on iTunes before it arrives in stores beginning May 27th, over a month before its targeted July in-store arrival (Playbill | Variety | Broadway.com)...
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Passing Strange song banned from CBS Tony preview special – "We Just Had Sex" had been planned for the telecast, but CBS standards and practices ruled that the song is inappropriate for broadcast television (Variety | Playbill | Los Angeles Times | Huffington Post | The New York Post | Broadway World | Theater Dogs)...
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Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records recorded the original cast album of Passing Strange in front of a live audience on stage at the Belasco Theatre April 14th. Stew and Heidi are the CD's producers (Playbill). The release date is July 15, 2008. See photos from the event here...
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Diana Ross visits Passing Strange; see photos on Broadway.com...
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Stew was featured as one of Out magazine's Out 100: The Men and Women Who Made 2007 a Year to Remember...
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Cool videos were shot at an open press rehearsal of Passing Strange; see them on Passing Strange online...
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The cast and creative team of Passing Strange met the press during their first rehearsal on January 7th at the New 42nd Street Studios: Playbill | Broadway.com | Broadway World
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Spike Lee encourages theatregoers to go see Passing Strange see Spike's ]...
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Listen to three new Passing Strange radio spots here featuring Stew, Heidi and music from the play...
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The CD What We Had by L.A. band Wednesday Week featuring Heidi was re-issued January 29th by Noble Rot, the label devoted to preserving great indie-rock albums of the early '80s and '90s. 
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Passing Strange on Broadway website launches, with songs from the show available for free download...
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Stew was guest DJ on WNYC Radio as part of the Must Have Festival sharing music that has inspired him. Listen here...
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Passing Strange has won four Audelco Awards for Heidi, Annie Dorsen, Daniel Breaker and 'Musical Production of the Year': Playbill | Broadway World | TheaterMania
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Stew was among the 41 people chosen (along with Barack Obama) for Vibe magazine's 'New Power Generation' list ('The Rogue Librettist'). The NPG are people Vibe views as instrumental in shaping the future and changing the world... [see it here]
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Stew and friends (featuring the cast and songs from Passing Strange) + the Negro Problem performed in Central Park's Delacorte Theater September 30th... [click here for photo]
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Passing Strange is moving to Broadway's Belasco Theatre in February 2008 with the original company. Previews begin February 8, opening February 28: Playbill | Variety | Broadway.com | TheaterMania | Broadway World
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Stew and Heidi cover Broadway for the Clash tribute album, The Sandinista Project. Available at: Amazon | iTunes | emusic
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Two unreleased Stew songs available here for listening or download (MP3): Black Men Ski | Pastry Shop
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Passing Strange selected as one of the ten best plays for 2006-2007...
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Stew writes about Passing Strange for Broadway.com's First Person...
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Listen to Stew, Heidi and Passing Strange on the radio (streaming): NPR's News & Notes | WNYC's Spinning on Air | WNYC's Soundcheck
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Counting Crows' Adam Duritz writes a master class overview of Stew and Negro Problem recordings in Issue #3 of his Down the Rabbit Hole online magazine...
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The Village Voice writes about Stew and Passing Strange ('L.A. Rebel in Berlin') [see the Village Voice]...
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Stew and Passing Strange on TV: Video on CBS 5 KPIX San Francisco
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REVIEWS OF PASSING STRANGE AT THE PUBLIC THEATER:
The New Yorker | New York Magazine | The New York Times | Variety | Newsday | The New York Sun | The San Francisco Chronicle (Associated Press) | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The Newark Star Ledger | The Financial Times | Gay City News | The HNIC Report | Theatermania.com | Inner Continental | Bold as Love
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Passing Strange wins Bay Area Critics Circle Award for 'Best Ensemble' [see theatermania.com]...
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Stew and Heidi (with Jon Spurney) performing Black Men Ski at the 2006 TED Conference in Monterey, California can be seen here...
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The Sundance Channel's Scenes from the Lab featuring Stew and Heidi and their film, We Can See Today, from the Sundance Directors Lab of June 2005 can be viewed here...
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Playbill writes about Passing Strange opening at the Public Theater May 1st [see Playbill]...
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The Public Theater announces Passing Strange previews to begin May 1st as part of its 2006-07 season, running through June 3rd [see the Public Theater's website]...
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Counting Crows' Adam Duritz talks about Stew, Heidi and Passing Strange in his blog...
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See PHOTOS from the Berkeley run of Passing Strange...
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Passing Strange brings back the Berkeley cast for the New York run at the Public Theater [see Playbill]...
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LISTEN TO STEW | PASSING STRANGE ON THE RADIO (streaming):
Passing Strange on KALW's Artery | Stew interview on KUSP/NPR's Talk of the Bay | David Gans’ interview with Stew and Heidi on KPFA | Stew interviewed on KUSF's Words on Theater | Stew on KQED's California Report
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REVIEWS OF PASSING STRANGE AT THE BERKELEY REP:
San Francisco Chronicle | Oakland Tribune | KQED Arts & Culture | KTVU | Napa Valley Register | Bay Area Reporter | Berkeley Daily Planet | East Bay Express | SFist | San Jose Mercury News
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ARTICLES ABOUT STEW AND PASSING STRANGE AT THE BERKELEY REP:
Los Angeles Times | Inside Bay Area | San Francisco Chronicle | San Jose Mercury News | East Bay Express
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Stew talks with Berkeley Rep dramaturg Madeleine Oldham about playwriting, songwriting and finding music everywhere on Berkeley Rep's website...
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San Francisco Bay Guardian's Aaron Sankin on Stew and Passing Strange: "There’s nothing that critics love more than jumping on bandwagons (except maybe jumping off them a few months later). So it’s best to take an artist with a boatload of great reviews with a grain of salt. However, sometimes an artist’s reviews are so hyperbolically positive because there’s some fire under all that smoke. Take Stew, for example, who has created a piece of musical theater titled Passing Strange that paints an alternately uproarious and heartbreaking picture of the black experience from suburbia to bohemia. The New York Times said it may be the best thing anyone’s done all year, and Entertainment Weekly gave Stew its 'Artist of the Year' award twice. Now if you know what’s good for you, you’ll get your butt to Berkeley, plant it in a seat, and be wowed by one of this generation’s greatest talents."
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced the world premiere of Passing Strange as part of its 2006-07 season, playing October 19th – December 3rd... [see Berkeley Rep's website]
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Stew was Artist-in-Residence at the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts February 20th – March 11th. Passing Strange, Stew and Heidi's work in progress, was developed and performed, along with lectures/discussions...
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Stew was a featured performer at TED 2006: The Future We Will Create... February 22-25 in Monterey, California. The conference featured such speakers and participants as Al Gore, Peter Gabriel, Thomas Dolby, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the founder of Google... [view photos: 1 2]
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Passing Strange is among recipients of the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award recognizing excellence in new musical theatre... [read the article in Playbill]
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Heidi is composer and musical director of Night and Day, a theater piece by New York avant-garde legend Karen Kandel. The show enjoyed a successful run at Theater for the New City in New York and the project will continue to develop in 2006. The piece is directed by Annie Dorsen of Passing Strange with keyboards by Stew Ensemble member Charlie Zayleskie...
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SpongeBob SquarePants 'Where's Gary' episode featuring Stew's Gary's Song scored huge ratings: highest-rated on all cable for kids in 2005; #1 on all TV for kids for the year behind the SuperBowl. Gary's Song is available on iTunes...
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Stew and Heidi were featured in the summer issue of FilmMaker magazine as two of '25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2005' [see article]...
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Stew has been selected as one of six emerging filmmakers for The Annenberg Film Fellows Program. Through their projects, the Annenberg Film Fellows 'reflect the powerful vision and individuality at the heart of American independent film.' See press releases (Annenberg Foundation | Sundance Institute)...
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Stew was accepted into the Sundance Institute's 2005 Filmmakers Lab where he worked from the screenplay he and Heidi wrote entitled We Can See Today. Read the Sundance Institute's press release…
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In other super-cool news, the Sundance Institute's 2005 Theater Lab has honored Stew's theater piece Passing Strange by inviting it back for the second year in a row. Read the Sundance Institute's press release…
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Hawk Productions unveils the official website for Jeffrey Winograd's upcoming feature-length documentary film about Stew, What's the Problem?
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The Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program selected Stew and Heidi's screenplay, The Seventy-Third Summer, as one of twelve projects for development at its annual Screenwriters Lab, which ran from January 14-19th at Sundance Village. Read the Sundance Institute's press release...
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Phase 1 of Stew's Sundance Diary now online...
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Stew's song, "Love Like That", was featured on the WB tv show, Everwood, on September 27th, 2004...
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Stew taught a fourth-year solo performance class at Cal Arts during the fall 2004 semester...
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Stew has written a song for Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants – more info to follow...
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Stew and Heidi were at the Sundance Theater Lab July 5th–19th, 2004... See story on Playbill website
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Stew and Heidi featured on WNYC's Studio 360. Listen to: Stew [2004.june.26]
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The New York Times reviews Stew at Symphony Space [2004.february.3]
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NPR's All Things Considered: "Stew Discovers 'Something Deeper'... Musician Stirs Up Sweet Melodies and Sophisticated Lyrics" [2003.november.10]