Stew, Heidi + the Negro Problem toured several cities this fall. Press coverage of the tour can be read below (click on media logo to read article)...

The new Kander & Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys, starring Colman Domingo, opened on Broadway on October 31st and closed December 12th. It may be revived in the spring of 2011 (Playbill)...

de'Adre Aziza is currently starring in the Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, based on the film by Pedro Almodovar. Also in the cast are Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Berlanti...

Annie Dorsen's new theatre piece, Hello Hi There, will premiere at the Coil Festival at PS 122 on January 6th (NYC Arts | Broadway World)...

Eisa Davis has a featured role in the film Welcome to the Rileys alongside James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo and Kristen Stewart...

Stew, Heidi + their band the Negro Problem performed the world premiere of their new song cycle commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Omnibus, on October 20th - 23rd as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. In addition, the Black Rock Coalition Orchestra performed songs from the Stew songbook on the 23rd as part of BAMcafe Live (The New York Times | The New Yorker | Playbill | TheaterMania | The Local)...

The first revival since the Broadway run of Passing Strange was staged at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. earning great reviews (including one from Stew), two extensions and a featured spot on D.C. best-of-the-year lists (Playbill)...

Stew + Heidi talked to The Village Voice about Making It [PHOTO]...

Stew + Heidi are featured in the February 15th issue of New York magazine [PHOTO]...

Stew + Heidi's multi-media concert presentation, Making It, will be performed at St. Ann's Warehouse February 17th – 22nd, 2010. Stew was among the 31 recipients awarded a grant from Meet the Composer, which handed out $300,000 for new music commissions (The Los Angeles Times | The New York Times 1 | 2 | BroadwayWorld | TheaterMania)...

Stew and Spike Lee talked to The Huffington Post about filming the movie of Passing Strange [PHOTO]...

Stew will write the score for Shakespeare's Othello for Shakespeare on the Sound's 2010 summer season (Playbill)...

Rebecca Jones has been cast in the Broadway production of American Idiot, reprisng her role of Whatshername. Rebecca sings '21 Guns' with Green Day and the cast [LISTEN HERE] and performed on the Grammy Awards on January 31st. The show opens on April 20th at the St. James Theater (The New York Times | Playbill)...

Colman Domingo will join John Cullum and Brandon Victor Dixon to lead the cast of the world premiere of The Scottsboro Boys, the new musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb that will open off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater in March directed by Tony winner Susan Stroman (Variety | Broadway.com)...

Eisa Davis will perform new and old songs at Symphony Space on February 26th as part of the Composers Now festival. She will also join Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori and others on February 22nd for a panel discussion entitled Speaking of the Arts: Composers Today (TheaterMania | BroadwayWorld)...

de'Adre Aziza was a featured performer in Lincoln Center's American Songbook series Michael Friedman: Adventures in Reality on January 30th (Playbill)...

Eisa Davis' autobiographical hip-hop theater piece, Angela's Mixtape, was named one of the best off-Broadway theatre shows of 2009 by The New Yorker...

The show Shrek the Musical, starring Daniel Breaker as Donkey, played its last performance on broadway on January 3rd (Playbill | TheaterMania)...

Eisa Davis starred along with Julianne Nicholson in the hit off-Broadway premiere of THIS, at Playwrights Horizons. The play was written by Melissa James Gibson and was extended through January 3rd...

Rebecca Naomi Jones starred with John Gallagher, Jr. in the hugely successful American Idiot which played September 4th through November 15th at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the original home of Passing Strange. The show is based on the music and album by Green Day (Playbill | Rolling Stone | The San Francisco Chronicle)...

Stew + Heidi performed songs from A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Harman Center for the Arts Annual Gala celebrating Shakespeare in Washington, D.C. on October 25th (the Washington Informer) [PHOTO]...

A staged reading of Punk Princess written by Yasmine Lever
with music composed by Stew + Heidi, took place at the sixth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival on October 14th at the Theatre at St. Clement's in New York City (Theatermania | Playbill)....

Passing Strange began a limited engagement in the Bay Area at Berkeley's Shattuck Theatre and San Francisco's Embarcadero Theatre on October 2nd [view flyer]...

Heidi attended the opening of Colman Domingo's acclaimed autobiographical solo show, A Boy and His Soul, on September 24th, 2009 along with Annie Dorsen, Chad Goodridge and de'Adre Aziza at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City [PHOTO | view show promotion]...

Passing Strange will play NYC's Tribeca Film Festival on May 2nd, followed by a conversation with Stew + Heidi and Spike Lee (Playbill | Hollywood Reporter | indieWIRE | EURweb | Screen Daily)...

Stew wrote the score, including seven new songs, for A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare on the Sound, which presents free outdoor summer theater along Long Island Sound. The production played in June and July, 2009. Stew has also joined the artistic advisory board of the company. CDs of Stew's soundtrack for the play can be purchased on CD Baby (The New York Times | Playbill)...

Rebecca Jones appeared in a featured role on the popular Fox TV series Fringe on April 21st, in the episode entitled Bad Dreams...

Stew + Heidi performed Pastry Shop (accompanied by Nile Rodgers) in the March 25th concert event Breaking The Silence, Beating The Drum, a co-presentation of the Culture Project and the United Nations. The one-night-only performance was part of the U.N.'s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Other participants included Bill T. Jones, Liev Schreiber, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Sarah Jones (the United Nations | the Culture Project | Playbill)...

The film of Passing Strange was one of the 108 films screened at the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas on March 17th. The screening was part of the Premiere Spotlight program and featured a Q&A with Spike Lee (Variety | Hollywood Reporter | indieWIRE)...

Eisa Davis will star in her autobiographical hip-hop theater piece, Angela's Mixtape, at New Georges in NYC (at the Ohio Theater) April 6th to May 2nd. The play will be presented in association with The Hip-Hop Theater Festival (Playbill | Broadway World | TheaterMania)...

Colman Domingo will direct Lisa Ramirez's new play Exit Cuckoo, in an off-Broadway production by Working Theater. The play's premiere is April 23rd at the Harold Clurman Theatre (Playbill | TheaterMania | Broadway World)...

Karole Armitage revived three of her older dances from the 80s plus an excerpt from a new piece with her company Armitage Gone! Dance. The program entitled Think Punk! played at The Kitchen in NYC March 4th through 14th (Time Out New York | The Wall Street Journal)...

Eisa Davis is featured this season on the Glenn Close TV series Damages on FX...

The Village Voice announced that the 54th Annual OBIE Awards will be co-hosted by Daniel Breaker and Martha Plimpton. The awards will take place on May 18th, 2009 at Webster Hall in New York City. Eisa Davis is one of the judges (Broadway.com | Broadway World)...

Stew + Heidi performed 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). Rebecca Jones, Eisa Davis and de'Adre Aziza sang back-up and the band included Jon Spurney, Christian Gibbs and Christian Cassan of the PS band. Stephen Holden of The New York Times reviewed the show (The Bard of Identity Crisis, Singing About Strangers in Strange Lands); then Stew reviewed the review (The New York Times | Stew)....

Stew moderated a discussion with Spike Lee and the cast and crew of Do the Right Thing! at a Black History Month event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking film at Lincoln Center in NYC on February 26th (NYC Talk)...

New York Times blogger, The Carpetbagger, suggested that Stew should perform at the Academy Awards in 2010 (The New York Times)...

Stew, alone and unguarded, played a rare solo acoustic show at the Oakland Metro Operahouse to benefit the Oakland Opera on February 20th, accompanied by Michael Udelson (piano) and Aaron Kierbel (drums) (The Berkeley Daily Planet)...

Stew + Heidi performed 'Keys' at the February 9th memorial for Gerald Schoenfeld, the late chairman of the Shubert Organization (one of the producers of Passing Strange), who died in November 2008 (Playbill)...

NEWS from SUNDANCE: The film of Passing Strange, directed by Spike Lee, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16th in the festival's noncompetitive Spectrum Documentary Spotlight program. Stew + Spike talked to The New York Times, Stew spoke to the Sundance Insider and Spike was interviewed by the Associated Press and The New York Times. On MLK Day, Stew signed copies of the complete book and lyrics of Passing Strange at Dolly's Bookstore in Park City. Passing Strange was developed by Stew and Heidi at the Sundance Theatre Lab in 2004 and 2005...
OTHER PRESS: The Los Angeles Times | Variety | TheaterMania | Broadway World
REVIEWS: Boxoffice.com | Film.com | Variety | Film Threat | Hollywood Reporter | Reuters
VIDEO: Spike talks about Passing Strange to AMC and E! Online; Stew + Heidi at the Sundance Directors Lab (2005, Scenes from the Lab, the Sundance Channel)
PHOTOS: SUNDANCE PHOTOS

de'Adre Aziza was featured in Ask Your Mama!, Laura Karpman's multimedia concert production based on Langston Hughes' 1961 epic poem cycle about African-American life. The world premiere was presented March 16th at Carnegie Hall and was directed by Passing Strange director Annie Dorsen. The piece also featured Jessye Norman, Lizz Wright and the Roots (Vanity Fair | Playbill)...

Colman Domingo brought his autobiographical solo show, A Boy and His Soul, to Joe's Pub on February 23rd (Playbill | Broadway World)...

Rebecca Naomi Jones performed in Vineyard Theatre's annual star-studded gala honoring Marian Seldes in New York City on February 9th (Playbill | TheaterMania)...

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

Eisa Davis appeared at Symphony Space (Leonard Nimoy Thalia) on February 6th in Strange Fruit, part of The 1939 Project. Eisa used Billie Holiday's politically charged song as a point of departure to explore other classics of the period and protest songs from 1939 to today, as well as her own compositions (The New York Times | TheatreMania)...

The Passing Strange soundtrack is #247 in The Village Voice's 2008 Pazz + Jop Album Poll...

The world premiere of Eisa Davis' new play, The History of LIght, has been announced in the 2009 lineup of new plays of the Contemporary American Theater Festival...

Jon Spurney is in the band of Rock & Roll: The Reunion Tour, a new musical created by Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Louisville Courier-Journal)...

Colman Domingo starred in the world premiere of Athol Fugard's Coming Home at the Long Wharf Theater. The play ran January 21st through February 8th (Playbill)...

Eisa Davis performed live on WNYC's Soundcheck on January 19th (listen here)...

Daniel Breaker and his Shrek, the Musical co-star, Brian d’Arcy James, had a night out with The New York Times in 'Swamp Creatures Step Out'...