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STEW IN CONCERT, AGAIN!
One-Night-Only
December 10, 7pm & 9pm
​We also invite you to join us at 8pm, between shows, for a cocktail party to raise a glass to a year of groundbreaking theater at Spooky Action!
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TICKETS: General Admission ($75): a riser seat; Table ($100): a seat at one of our cabaret tables close to the stage (each table seats 4), including a free drink voucher. Proceeds from this special event will support the next year of daring productions, meaningful educational opportunities, and explosive new works at Spooky Action.

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Join us for a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY concert by composer, rock musician, and playwright STEW STEWART, as we transform our space into an intimate underground cabaret. Stew will perform an hour-long set of his songs, from his early days with Stew & The Negro Problem, to his 2008 Tony Award-winning Broadway show, "Passing Strange", along with special selections from other albums and shows he has written and performed over the last fifteen years.  

As a Tony Award and two-time Obie Award winning playwright/performer, Stew is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and veteran of multiple dive-bar stages. In addition to his stellar credentials, Stew has a deep love for experimental and indie theater, as well as collaborating across cultures and disciplines. Most recently, Stew and his collaborator Heidi Rodewald scored the award-winning New Yorker short documentary "Criminal" directed by Rob Imbriano about the harrowing conditions in the Howard County Jail in Houston, TX. Stew currently teaches musical theater writing at Harvard. Other highlights include live shows and an album titled Notes from a Native Song, inspired by the writings of James Baldwin. Stew has also written numerous songs for film and television, including collaborations with film director Spike Lee; notably, Stew is the composer of “Gary Come Home” of Sponge-Bob Squarepants.
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RUN TIME: Hour-long set.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST - Stew is a Tony Award and two-time Obie Award winning playwright/performer, a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter, and veteran of multiple dive-bar stages. He is Professor of the Practice of Musical Theater Writing at Harvard University, where his classes are hothouses of multi-disciplinary, self-challenging experimentation, which strive to demystify the creative process.  Stew’s work has been featured at Lincoln Center, the United Nations, the Kennedy Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, UCLA Live, NPR, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, among others. In 2015 Stew, along with partner in crime Heidi Rodewald, wrote and performed Notes of a Native Song, a collage of songs, text, and video inspired by James Baldwin and commissioned and produced by Harlem Stage. Stew recently debuted “High Substitute for the Head Lecturer” (2024) a song cycle about Amiri Baraka.   

Stew’s works include songs written for Spike Lee’s TV show She’s Gotta Have It (2018): A Clown with the Nuclear Code & Maybe There’s Black People in Fort Green. Resisting My Resistance to the Resistance, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017); Mosquito Net, (NYUAD Arts Center, Abu Dhabi (2016); Notes of a Native Song, commissioned and produced by Harlem Stage & performed worldwide (2015 to present); Wagner, Max!!! Wagner!!! commissioned by and debuted at Kennedy Center, DC (2015); among others. 

Stew & The Negro Problem have released 12 critically acclaimed albums between 1997 and the present. Stew is the composer of “Gary Come Home” of Sponge Bob SquarePants fame, which, honestly, is all anyone cares about anyway. 

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