Passing Strange

PASSING STRANGE

Book and lyrics by STEW

Music by STEW & HEIDI RODEWALD

Directed by and created in collaboration with ANNIE DORSEN



COMING in 2009.

Passing Strange

the film directed by Spike Lee



The musical play was performed at



The Belasco Theatre

New York City

February 8th - July 20th, 2008



The Public Theater

New York City

May 1st - July 1st, 2007



Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Berkeley, California

October 19th - December 3rd, 2006



From Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and Back, the musical play 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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“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



Passing Strange was a co-production of Berkeley Repertory Theatre

and The Public Theater.