The film of Passing Strange and Spike Lee (who directed) will debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. The film will premiere in the festival's noncompetitive Spectrum Documentary Spotlight program, where it is hoped it will attract a distributor. Stew and Heidi developed Passing Strange at the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2004 and 2005 (The Los Angeles Times | Variety | TheaterMania)...

Stew and Heidi will perform at Alice Tully Hall on March 6th, 2009 as part of the The American Songbook series at Lincoln Center (The New York Times | Playbill | Variety | Broadway.com | Broadway World)...

The complete book and lyrics of Passing Strange is available for pre-order at Amazon with a tentative publishing date of February 15th, 2009...

Colman Domingo appeared in the December 10th airing of NbC's Law & Order, in the episode entitled Sweetie...

Daniel Breaker takes The New York Daily News behind the scenes of Shrek, the Musical...

Stew talked about Obama in the election issue of The Village Voice...

Eisa Davis appeared with Manoel Felciano (Sweeney Todd) in Nathaniel Stookey's ZIPPERZ: a soapopera (world premiere) with the Oakland Symphony on the symphony's opening night at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, on November 14th...

Colman Domingo was featured in First Vote '08: Trust Us – This Won't Hurt A Bit, a group of short plays, songs, and sketches about first-time voters to benefit the Epic Theatre Ensemble, along with Bill Irwin, Tony Kushner, Nilaja Sun, David Strathairn and Neil Labute among others. The event took place on November 3rd (Playbill | TheaterMania)...

Stew performed Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting in a benefit concert of Elton John's album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on October 20th, along with Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds, John Cameron Mitchell, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the cast of Hair, artists from New York theater, and Elton John himself. The concert raised money for The Elton John AIDS Foundation, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Friends in Deed (Playbill)...

An article about Stew and Passing Strange appeared in the Fall 2008 issue of Beyond Race magazine...

Colman Domingo starred in The Deconstructive Theatre Project's one-night benefit reading of Michael Marc Bouchard's play Lilies, or The Revival of a Romantic Drama on October 20th. See photos from the performance here (Playbill | Broadway World | TheaterMania)...

The Stew Songbook was part of Joe's Pub free performance series celebrating its tenth anniversary, 10 for the 10th. Artists such as Michael Cerveris, John Cameron Mitchell, Taylor Mac and Penny Arcade performed songs from Stew+Heidi's catalogue on October 12th...

Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz called Passing Strange, which she saw on closing night, one of her "top ten nights in the theater ever" in the October 2008 issue of Vogue magazine...

de'Adre Aziza, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Colman Domingo appear in Spike Lee's latest film, Miracle at St. Anna...

Daniel Breaker has been cast in the central role of Donkey in DreamWorks' Shrek, the Musical. Previews begin November 8th and the show opens December 14th (The New York Times | Variety | Playbill | Broadway World | The Canadian Press)...

The Village Voice has announced that Eisa Davis will be one of the judges for the 54th Annual Obie Awards for 2009, along with Moisés Kaufman and Michael Feingold among others (Playbill | Broadway.com | Broadway World)...

The San Francisco Examiner wrote about Colman Domingo in the article, After Broadway's Strange, Colman Domingo Rediscovers his Soul...

Rebecca Naomi Jones starred with Michael Kenneth Williams (of HBO's The Wire) in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out! which opened the season at the Vineyard Theater. Previews began September 10th and the play opened September 30th (The New York Times | Playbill | Broadway.com)...

OUT magazine featured Colman Domingo in their fashion spread, Broadway Boys, as one of Broadway's finest performers (see Colman's photo)...

Christian Gibbs' band Lucinda Black Bear's video for the song, 'You've Got it Blue,' was featured on Paste magazine's Video of the Day...

Colman Domingo returned to San Francisco's THICKdescription for his solo performance musical memoir, A Boy and His Soul. The show ran September 3rd – 14th at The Thick House (The San Francisco Examiner | The San Francisco Chronicle | Broadway World | TheaterMania)...

David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine chose Passing Strange as one of his Fricke's Picks: Strange Broadway...

Passing Strange is featured in the Playbill 2007-2008 Broadway Yearbook. The yearbook creators collaborated with a correspondent from each show (Eisa Davis represented for Passing Strange) and is available on Amazon (Playbill)...

Karole Armitage choreographed the Public Theater's production of Hair for the Shakespeare in the Park summer series at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre (The New York Times | Playbill)...

Spike Lee filmed Passing Strange July 19th - 21st; how the film will be released is still to be determined. See a photo from the press conference here (MTV News | Newsday | Associated Press | Reuters | The San Francisco Chronicle | The Washington Times | USA Today | Paste | Contact Music | The New York Daily News | Entertainment Weekly | The New York Times | San Francisco Examiner | UPI | Playbill | Variety | Broadway.com | Broadway World | TheaterMania)...

The last performance of Passing Strange at the Belasco Theater was the July 20th matinee, closing after 185 performances. Read Stew's July 10th ps notice blog here
(The San Francisco Chronicle | The New York Times | Contact Music | Playbill | Variety | Bloomberg.com | Broadway.com | TheaterMania)...

Amy Goodman interviews Stew on Democracy Now. Watch it here (RealPlayer required)...

Future Me, featuring new music by Stew, plays SPF (The Summer Play Festival) at the Public Theater July 22nd - 27th...

Barry Smolin talks to Stew about Obama, racial stereotypes, punk rock and black republicans among other things for Music for Democracy; read the interview here...

Chad Goodridge and Rebecca Naomi Jones will participate in Soul Deep: An Anthology of Black Music on Monday, August 18th at 7pm at Birdland in NYC. The event will honor Phylicia Rashad and raise money for Broadway Inspirational Voices (Playbill | Theatermania)....

TheaterMania looks back at a dozen overlooked award-worthy performances of the past Broadway season in 'Twelve Memorable Men (and Women)'. High on their list is Colman Domingo's performance in Passing Strange (TheaterMania)...

Harvard Magazine wrote about Harvard's accomplished alumnus Eisa Davis in the article, 'Thoroughly Eclectic'...

The New York Post asks Stew about his first concert...

The New York Times writes about Heidi in their Public Lives series. Read the article here...

Rafael Pi Roman interviews Stew on New York Voices on PBS. Watch it here...

Stew wins the Tony for 'Best Book of a Musical' and Stew, Heidi and the cast of Passing Strange perform 'Keys' with Adam Duritz introducing the performance. Stew and Heidi (with the band, Eisa Davis and Daniel Breaker) also performed 'Mom Song' at the Visa Signature Tony Award Concert Preview. Watch: the Tony performance | Stew's acceptance speech | 'Mom Song' at Tony Preview Concert

The San Francisco Chronicle gives the Passing Strange cast album a rave review...

Broadway.com's Tony coverage features videos from Passing Strange and the cast...

Stew plays drunk at the Obies according to New York magazine (watch video of the performance here)...

Passing Strange wins 2 Obie Awards. Passing Strange won 'Best New Theater Piece' and 'Best Ensemble'. The cast also performed 'We Just Had Sex' and 'Keys' at the ceremony at Webster Hall on May 19th (The New York Times | The Village Voice | Variety | San Francisco Chronicle | The Denver Post | The Gothamist | Broadway.com)...

Passing Strange named best musical of the 2007-2008 season
by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. The organization presented its awards on May 19th at the Algonquin Hotel. See photos from the event at Broadway.com (The New York Times | Variety | Playbill | The Los Angeles Times | Newsday)...

Passing Strange wins 3 Drama Desk Awards. Passing Strange won 'Outstanding Musical', 'Outstanding Music' (Stew and Heidi) and 'Outstanding Actor in a Musical' (Daniel Breaker) at the 53rd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented May 18th at Lincoln Center. See photos from the event at Playbill (The New York Times | Playbill | The Associated Press)...

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...

Passing Strange nominated for 7 Tony Awards. Passing Strange has been nominated for Best Musical, Best Book – Musical (Stew), Best Original Score (Stew and Heidi), Best Performance Lead Actor - Musical (Stew), Best Performance by a Featured Actor and Actress – Musical (Daniel Breaker and de'Adre Aziza) and Best Orchestrations (Stew and Heidi) (Tony Awards | The New York Times | Variety | USA Today | The Associated Press | The San Francisco Chronicle | The San Jose Mercury News | Broadway.com)...

Stew talks to MTV News about music in the theater (watch video at MTV News). See the entire MTV News story about rock music on Broadway featuring Passing Strange here...

Stew is scheduled to play the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center March 6th, 2009 (The New York Times)...

The cast of Passing Strange performed on The View on May 12th (watch video of the performance here)...

Passing Strange will be the first Broadway cast recording to be exclusively available on iTunes before it arrives in stores beginning May 27th, more than a month before its targeted July in-store arrival (Playbill | Variety | Broadway.com)...

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. The production team felt unable to prepare a new song in time for the taping and has been told there is no recourse to the CBS decision. Currently, Passing Strange will not be featured in the telecast (Variety | Playbill | Los Angeles Times | Huffington Post | The New York Post | Broadway World | Theater Dogs)...

Passing Strange has been nominated for seven Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Daniel Breaker), Outstanding Choreography (Karole Armitage), Outstanding Music (Stew and Heidi Rodewald), Outstanding Lyrics (Stew), Outstanding Book of a Musical (Stew) and Outstanding Orchestrations (Stew and Heidi Rodewald) (Associated Press)...

Passing Strange has been nominated for the 'Distinguished Production of a Musical' 2008 Drama League Award. Stew and Daniel Breaker have also been nominated for the 'Distinguished Performance Award' (Broadway.com)...

Passing Strange has been nominated for three 2008 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Director (Annie Dorsen) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Kevin Adams). Annie received her nomination a day late in error (Playbill | Broadway.com). Additional reports on the nominations at Broadway.com | Broadway World | TheaterMania...

The cast of Passing Strange will perform at the 53rd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, off-Broadway's highest honor, on May 19th at Webster Hall. The event will be webcast live (Playbill)...

Passing Strange has been nominated for a 58th Annual Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score (Playbill)...

Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records recorded the original cast album of Passing Strange in front of a live audience in a recording session on stage at the Belasco Theatre April 14th. The release date is expected for June 2008. Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records president Kurt Deutsch and Bill Rosenfield will serve as executive producers, with Stew and Heidi as the CD's producers (Playbill). See photos from the session here...

Playbill reports on the Tony Awards Administration Committee's rulings on Tony nomination eligibility, including Passing Strange...

Rosie O'Donnell attends a performance of Passing Strange and writes about it in her blog and poses with the cast for a picture (see photo)...

Passing Strange won a special award for 'Best Designed and Constructed Bonnet' in the annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition. The PS bonnet was designed by Susan Goulet and Rebecca Naomi Jones and inspired by lighting designer Kevin Adams. The cast also performed a parody of Michael Jackson's Thriller entitled Passing Strangest (Playbill)...

Annie Dorsen takes part in a roundtable conversation with three other women theater directors in Top Girls: Broadway's Women Directors Tell All...

Colman Domingo will direct the off-Broadway return of Lisa B. Thompson's comedy Single Black Female for the New Professional Theatre. The show is scheduled to begin performances June 10th at The Duke on 42nd Street (Playbill | Broadway World)...

Stew, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Colman Domingo will perform the national anthem on opening day of softball for the Broadway Show League on May 22nd (Playbill)...

Eisa Davis will appear with the Oakland East Bay Symphony at the Paramount Theatre on November 14th in the premiere of Nathaniel Stookey's Zipperz. Manoel Felciano will also be featured in the piece with Eisa (Contra Costa Times)...

Variety writes about Daniel Breaker in Up Next: Broadway's Brightest...

Broadway.com features Eisa Davis in its My New York column where stage stars share what they love about New York City...

The complete second season of The Big Gay Sketch Show featuring Colman Domingo is now available on DVD (Amazon)...

Whoopi Goldberg is seen wearing a Passing Strange t-shirt on The View, having visited with Stew after a performance the day before. Barbara Walters had given a shout-out to the show in an earlier broadcast...

The Gothamist talks with Stew about Passing Strange...

The cast of Spring Awakening attends a matinee of Passing Strange. See photos of their visit with Stew and the cast at Broadway.com...

Passing Strange is the Readers' Choice on Entertainment Weekly's Must List for the week of April 6th, 2008...

The L.A. Weekly talks to Stew and Heidi about Passing Strange and Los Angeles in Passing Strange: The L.A. Problem...

Playbill has a Diva Talk with Rebecca Naomi Jones, Eisa Davis and de'Adre Aziza...

Stew and Heidi appeared on WNET's Theater Talk to discuss Passing Strange with hosts Susan Haskins and Michael Riedel. Watch it here (RealPlayer required)...

Daniel Breaker celebrated his upcoming nuptials to Kate Whoriskey with his castmates from Passing Strange (photos at Playbill)...

Broadway.com's Buzz interviews Daniel Breaker for its Fresh Face feature...

Annie Dorsen's Democracy in America, officially opened at PS 122 on April 3rd and plays through April 20th. Annie and her collaborators created the production from ideas, props, physical motions and text supplied by the public purchased through a series of live and online auctions (Playbill)...

The New York Times talks with Eisa Davis and includes audio excerpts from Eisa's cd, Something Else: A Broadway Mother of Many Identities...

Eisa Davis played her solo show at Joe's Pub on March 9th (Playbill)...

Dave Chappelle and the Actors Studio's James Lipton visited Passing Strange on March 1st. See photos on Broadway.com...

Colman Domingo and Eisa Davis eat sushi with Anika Noni Rose and The New York Times: Back to Broadway...

Broadway.com interviews Stew in its Q & A...

Spike Lee encourages theatregoers to go see Passing Strange [ see Spike's message ]

Opening night for Passing Strange! Watch video coverage on the Media page.
Photos and coverage of the opening and after-party at ESpace can be seen here:
Broadway.com | Playbill | TheaterMania | Broadway World

Reviews for Passing Strange:
The New York Times | Variety | Wall Street Journal | Reuters | USA Today | Newsday | New York Magazine | Entertainment Weekly | The Star Ledger | International Herald Tribune | New York Sun | New York Press | The Record | New York Daily News | The New York Post | Journal News | Chicago Tribune | The Hartford Courant

Time magazine talks about Passing Strange and In the Heights in answer to its question, where will Broadway find its next Rent?: Life After Rent...

Stew Takes a Strange Road to Broadway according to USA Today...

Stew answers questions in the Sunday New York Times Magazine: Strange Magic...

The Star Ledger talks to Stew and Heidi about the evolution of Passing Strange: It All Came Together in a Strange Stew...

The New York Post reports on 'hip rockers learning to speak Shubert' in Broadway's Strange Minds...

Diana Ross visits Passing Strange - see photos of her visit with Stew and the cast on Broadway.com...

Backstage writes about Stew's atypical autobiographical journey: The Passing Show...

Ebony Jet reports on the development of Passing Strange and how a rock 'n roller ended up on Broadway: Black Rock 'n' Roll on Broadway...

The Wall Street Journal says: Passing Strange is Rocking the Great White Way...

Broadway World talks to the cast of Passing Strange: The Strangers of Passing Strange: Part 1 and Part 2...

The Theatre Development Fund interviews Heidi Rodewald about Passing Strange...

Playbill talks to Stew in Stew's Brew and Welcome to Amsterdam...

Listen to three new Passing Strange radio spots with Stew & Heidi here...

Time Out New York article, Rites of Passing, about Passing Strange opening in previews...

Listen to new Stew interviews from Playbill Radio and Bold as Love on the Audio page...

Stew talks to Variety about ethnic identity in the theater and whether the color of a cast dictates the color of the audience in Broadway Colors Outside the Lines...

Broadway World, TheaterMania and Broadway Bullet all shot performance and interview video at the January 16th open rehearsal of Passing Strange at New 42nd Street Studios. Visit the Media page if you like to watch...

Variety mentions Passing Strange as a 'potential Tony contender'...

Stew talks about Passing Strange in Michael Musto's column (La Dolce Musto) in The Village Voice...

Playbill talks to Stew, Heidi and the cast about Passing Strange's early development on the way to Broadway...

The cast and creative team met the press during their first rehearsal on January 7th at the New 42nd Street Studios: Playbill | Broadway.com | Broadway World

The CD What We Had by L.A. band Wednesday Week featuring Heidi Rodewald was re-issued January 29th by Noble Rot, the label devoted to preserving great indie-rock albums of the early '80s and '90s... [now available at Amazon | Collector's Choice]

Daniel Breaker talks about Passing Strange on TheaterMania.com...

Passing Strange on Broadway website launches with free song downloads...

Stew was featured as one of Out magazine's Out 100: The Men and Women Who Made 2007 a Year to Remember... [see it here]

Colman Domingo joins the cast for Season 2 of The Big Gay Sketch Show on the Logo cable channel: Bay Windows...

Eisa Davis is featured in Paul Festa's film Apparition of the Eternal Church which made its Bay Area debut at U.C. Berkeley on January 25th. The film also features John Cameron Mitchell, Marga Gomez and Daniel Handler...

Choreographer Karole Armitage was interviewed on WNYC's Leonard Lopate show about the world premiere of Connoisseurs of Chaos. Danced to music by Morton Feldman, the piece was performed by her company ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE at the Joyce Theater January 22nd – 27th, 2008 [Playbill | Gay City News]. Listen here...

Passing Strange appeared on Charles Isherwood's Year-End List in The New York Times, as well as New York magazine's 'Best in Theater 2007 Culture Awards' and the The Star Ledger's year-end list...

San Francisco's THICKdescription to (tentatively) revive 2005's acclaimed autobiographical A Boy and His Soul, written and performed by Colman Domingo (proposed opening: July 14, 2008)...

The regional premiere of Eisa Davis' play Angela's Mix Tape will be performed by Atlanta's Synchronicity Theater February 15th – March 16th, 2008...

Playbill looks at the upcoming 2008 broadway season, including Passing Strange...

Passing Strange won four Audelco Awards for Heidi Rodewald, Annie Dorsen, Daniel Breaker and 'Musical Production of the Year': Playbill | Broadway World | TheaterMania

Daniel Breaker was featured in Lincoln Center's production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline which ran from November 2007 through January 6th, 2008. Also in the cast were Michael Cerveris, John Collum, Martha Plimpton and Phylicia Rashad...

Passing Strange selected as one of the ten best plays for 2006-2007: Playbill...

Eisa Davis’ play Bulrusher (a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in drama), performed by Berkeley's Shotgun Players, appeared on Theater Dogs' '2007 Theater Top 10 List'... [read more about Eisa's play in The Berkeley Daily Planet]

Rebecca Naomi Jones was in the company of Kirsten Childs' Funked Up Fairy Tales at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak in December 2007: Playbill...

Stew was guest DJ on WNYC Radio's Evening Music as part of the Must Have Festival that featured conversations with artists who are transforming the city and the culture to talk about the music that has influenced them. Listen here...

Award-winning director Annie Dorsen held a launch party at Joe's Pub for her project Democracy in America (with a theme song written by Stew), the first performance piece in which the consumers are the creators, to premiere in April 2008 at PS 122. Visit the show's website buydemocracy.com to learn more...

Stew was among the 41 people chosen (along with Barack Obama among others) 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]

Eisa Davis releases her CD Something Else. A singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist, Eisa's music is passionate, minimalist soul... [available at CD Baby and iTunes]

Stew and friends (featuring the cast and songs from Passing Strange) + the Negro Problem performed in Central Park September 30th... [click here for photo]

The Shubert Organization announces Passing Strange's move to Broadway (to the Belasco Theater) in February 2008... [see the Shubert Organization]

The New York Post reported that Lenny Kravitz and daughter Zoe attended a performance of Passing Strange at the Public Theater...

Spike Lee attends a performance of Passing Strange at the Public: "He looked like he was lapping it up, laughing, clapping, even leaning forward in his seat Knicks-at-the-buzzer style as writer-director Stew told the story of his teenage self in search of 'the Real': Vulture, New York magazine...

Stew writes about Passing Strange for Broadway.com's First Person...

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...

The Village Voice writes about Stew and Passing Strange ('L.A. Rebel in Berlin'): The Village Voice...

The Berkeley Repertory Theater run of Passing Strange wins the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for 'Best Ensemble': TheaterMania...