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The Public Theater announced today that Stew and Heidi Rodewald will perform live with the on-stage band for THE TOTAL BENT, playing the guitar and bass, respectively. With text by Stew and music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, the team behind the Tony Award-wining musical Passing Strange, which premiered at The Public in 2003, this world premiere musical is directed by Joanna Settle. Performances begin Tuesday, May 10 and continue through Sunday, June 12, with an official press opening on Wednesday, May 25.

The Kennedy Center's 2015-2016 World Stages series continues with three trailblazing, multidisciplinary works that are coming to Washington, D.C.: Laurie Anderson's Language of the Future: Letters to Jack (March 4-6); Monica Bill Barnes's Happy Hour (March 10-11); and Van-Ánh Võ's The Odyssey: From Vietnam to America (March 11-12). With a long history of presenting original international works, these programs reinforce the Center's commitment to presenting leading performers and companies from the United States and abroad, offering D.C. audiences an entryway to global arts and culture.  

The Tony Award, Drama Desk and Obie-Award Winner STEW (Passing Strange) takes on the guise of 'The Singing MC' today Dec. 11th at The Living Room where he'll be hosting, for your Today evening's pleasure, a delectable night of Song and Atmosphere featuring the utterly singular ESZTER BALINT as well as local legends and dear friends CHURCH OF BETTY.

The Tony Award, Drama Desk and Obie-Award Winner STEW (Passing Strange) takes on the guise of 'The Singing MC' on Friday Dec. 11th at The Living Room where he'll be hosting, for your Friday evening's pleasure, a delectable night of Song and Atmosphere featuring the utterly singular ESZTER BALINT as well as local legends and dear friends CHURCH OF BETTY.

Surprising and unique is the name of the game here.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents World Stages in the 2015-2016 season. With a long history of presenting original global works, the Kennedy Center's International Programming brings leading companies and artists from the U.S. and abroad to present six cutting-edge works of theater, music, dance, and more as part of this season's World Stages.

A sexy cast of beautiful people inhabits Green Day's punk rock opera American Idiot, in a ferocious glory|struck production that opened last weekend at The Vortex. Directors Topher Rhys and Jen Oundjian (who also choreographs) take full advantage of the concert venue space and go for a panoramic experience, moving the action offstage whenever possible. The concept enhances the surround sound feel of the show and if you approach it from a concert mindset it will be easy to go with the flow. In a way, by chopping up the visual space to include playing areas all around the space, it enhances the disconnectedness we see in the characters. Plus, there is a certain kind of bond an audience feels with an actor when he is dripping with sweat and singing his guts out right next to you.