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Two club rats
fell asleep in a van…

…to awaken in weirdness…rollin’…rollin’…rollin’ on the River Broadway…in a life-boat dubbed Passing Strange, …a sturdy vessel of autobiographical-fiction wrought by and starring one Stew, an irreverent party whose entire knowledge of theater prior to this reverie consisted of liking the film version of How to Succeed in Business. Heidi Rodewald, the other club-rat, Stew’s partner in crime, accomplice in mayhem, and ace-collaborator, co-scribes la musique while co-creator Annie Dorsen magic-wands it all into a waking dream that withstands seven Tony Nominations and a Best Book of a Musical Tony for club-rodent eins. Some bodies called it a rock concert in musical theater drag, others, a play out of which a rock show emerged. Spike Lee called it a wrap but not before filming the finale and flagrantly forming it into a 100% fresh joint of ya-dig, sho-nuff cinema about which all raved.

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Spike Lee’s Next Project: A Viagra Musical with songs by Stew & Heidi.

Spike Lee’s latest project will be a movie musical that chronicles the invention of Viagra based on a 2018 Esquire article that traced the discovery and marketing of the drug. Lee will write the script with the British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. Stew and Heidi will compose the music. Read more at the New York Times.

Back at Harvard.

Stew is BACK teaching at Harvard in the Fall of 2021 for the second year in a row. This semester Stew will be charging students with the modest task of re-inventing theater. More here.

The New Musical at Baruch College

Stew will be the Spring 2021 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. His students are writing a collaborative musical which he will shape into an evening of provocative sounds and images. Read more here.