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“FRESH, exuberant, bracingly inventive, BITINGLY FUNNY, and FULL OF HEART" with "A TERRIFIC CAST that delivers perfectly pitched comic performances.”
–Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"With EXCELLENT SONGS and a vulnerable heart, Passing Strange could join HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH as a PUNK MUSICAL MILESTONE.”
–Mark Blankenship, Variety
“STEW tweaks the received wisdom of racial identity as cannily and wittily as any playwright since George C. Wolfe when he unleashed The Colored Museum in 1986.”
–Eric Grode, The New York Sun
PASSING STRANGE
Book and lyrics by STEW
Music by STEW & HEIDI RODEWALD
Directed by and Created in Collaboration with ANNIE DORSEN With de'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stew
Musicians: Heidi Rodewald (Bass, Vocals), Jon Spurney (Keyboards, Guitar), Christian Cassan (Percussion), Marc Doten (Keyboards)
Scenic Design by David Korins
Costume Design by Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design by Kevin Adams
Movement Coordinator – Karole Armitage
Sound Design by Tony Smolenski IV
Musical Director – Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor – Jon Spurney
Production Stage Manager – Cynthia Cahill
“Passing Strange introduces an EXCITING NEW VOICE to contemporary musical theater. PART CONCERT, PART book MUSICAL with DRIVING ROCK MUSIC and a tart satiric tone – Passing Strange DEFIES generic categories. It dares in its playful way to honor those big questions that have set adolescent souls yearning for centuries. How to discover and be true to your convictions, how to live a meaningful life, and still pay the bills, how to find the understanding you need with out throwing away the love you’re offered.”
–Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
From Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and Back, Passing Strange is the story of a young black bohemian, who abandons his bourgeois roots to journey to Europe searching for ‘the real’. Discovering a world of sex, drugs, rock and roll and art revolutionaries, our rebel-hero explores love, identity and the meaning of home.
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Rush Tix
There will be a limited number of $20 Rush Tix available at the box office for every downtown theater performance on sale to the general public one hour prior to curtain. There is a 2 ticket limit per person. Cash only.
Full Price Waiting List Tickets
On the day of a sold out performance, we will take a waiting list for full price tickets in person at the box office. The waiting list will be called no earlier than 1/2 hour before curtain. If you are called and not in the lobby, your name will be removed from the list. While tickets occasionally become available in this manner, we are unable to make predictions or guarantees.
Student Tickets
$25 tickets are available for advance purchase at the box office for every downtown theater performance on sale to the general public. Must have a valid student ID at the time of purchase. Limit 1 ticket per person.
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Video clip provided by www.ted.com .

Passing Strange is a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Click here to visit their website.