Public Events

STEW & FRIENDS

FREE PUBLIC SERIES | MONDAYS | 7 P.M.

Up close and personal with award winning artists on the cutting edge of Broadway, theater, cabaret, rock, jazz, and film.

SEPT. 12 | Passing Strange
Spike Lee’s film of Stew’s rock musical

SEPT. 19 | Justin Vivian Bond | Clip from UW performance

“Justin Bond is a trans-atlantic cabaret messiah” –Time Out London

SEPT. 26 | Patrik-Ian Polk | Clip from UW performance

Filmmaker of Punks, Noah’s Arc and The Skinny

OCT. 3 | David Cale | Clip from UW performance

Actor/playwright/director

OCT. 10 | Eisa Davis | Clip from UW performance

Singer/songwriter/actor/playwright

OCT. 17 | Toshi Reagon

“Fierce and uncompromising…a shower of retro funk, urban blues, and folk…to hear her is to believe.” –New Yorker

OCT. 24 | Richard Davis

Jazz legend, UW-Madison faculty

OCT. 31 | Taylor Mac | Clip from UW performance

“Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again and sews sequins along the scars” –The Irish Times

NOV. 7 | Vernon Reid -- CANCELED

Guitarist/songwriter/bandleader of Living Colour

NOV. 14 | Paul Farber | Clip from UW performance

Hip-hop scholar

NOV. 21 | Colman Domingo | Clip from UW performance

Writer/director/singer/actor of musical A Boy and His Soul

NOV. 28 | Paul Oakley Stovall | Clip from UW performance

Obama administration staff, singer/songwriter/actor/playwright of CLEAR: A New Musical Experience

DEC. 5 | The Negro Problem | Clip from UW performance

Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s band