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STEW IN CONCERT
DEC 7, 7 PM: SOLD OUT
DEC 7, 9 PM: TICKETS AVAILABLE

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Singer-songwriter and playwright, Stew Stewart, will perform a one-hour set of his songs, from his early days in Stew & The Negro Problem, to his 2008 Tony Award-winning Broadway show, "Passing Strange", along with selections from the multiple albums and shows he has written and performed over the last fifteen years. 

In addition to his stellar credentials, Stew has a deep love for experimental and indie theater, as well as collaborating across cultures; his musical Passing Strange is based on his own experience of traveling to Europe as a young man and being profoundly influenced by the connections he made there.

​We also invite you to join us at 8 pm for a cocktail party and raise a glass to a year of daring theater at Spooky Action!
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RUN TIME: Hour-long set and 15-min post-show conversation

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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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