'Curran: Under Construction' Continues with Stew's NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG This Weekend

The Curran is proud to present NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG by Tony Award-winning writer/musician Stew and co-composer Heidi Rodewald as part of "Curran: Under Construction," the ground-breaking series of intimate and non-traditional programming curated by Carole Shorenstein Hays.

The four-performance limited engagement will begin Thursday, December 3 and run through December 5 at the Curran (445 Geary St).

As recently announced, "Curran: Under Construction" kicks-off a new era for the historic theatre, which is undergoing a major renovation and will reopen as a full-sized venue in early 2017. Throughout "Curran: Under Construction," audiences will enter through the Curran's stage door alleyway and be seated on stage alongside the action.

Famed writer/musician Stew, whose Passing Strange started at Berkeley Rep and went on to win several Tony Awards, now brings NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG to the Bay Area. An homage to the great African-American writer and activist, James Baldwin, NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG is a collage of songs, text and video inspired by Baldwin's brave and visionary proclivity for airing uncomfortable truths as celebratory events of poetry and beauty. The show was previously presented as part of Harlem Stage's season celebrating the 90th anniversary of Baldwin's birth.

Joining Stew and Heidi Rodewald at the Curran will be their band, The Negro Problem.

"Curran: Under Construction" features an array of wildly inventive and diverse works, each with ties to the Bay Area. This ground-breaking festival began in September with The Events (September 23 - 26), The Object Lesson (October 14-18) and Ghost Quartet (October 23-25 & 28-31), Steve Cuiffo is Lenny Bruce (November 19-21) and will also include Story Pirates' Greatest Hits Show (December 12-13 & 19-20) and Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music (January 17-31). Tickets for "Curran: Under Construction" offerings are priced from $25 to $50 and can be purchased by exclusively via Eventbrite by visiting SFCURRAN.COM, where you can also find all the latest information about "Curran: Under Construction" and plans for the new Curran theatre.

Built in 1922, the Curran has housed some of the most important productions in theater history and has maintained a reputation over the course of its life as one of the most prestigious live entertainment venues in North America. Now, nearly 100 years after it welcomed its first Bay Area audiences, the Curran is undergoing a major restoration and renovation. Under the curation of eight-time Tony Award winner Carole Shorenstein Hays, the Curran will reopen as a 1,600 seat venue in late 2016 with the new mission. Inspired by the unique entrepreneurial spirit of the Bay Area, as well as Ms. Shorenstein Hays's lifelong passion for creatively daring, cutting-edge material, the Curran will provide a home for a handpicked selection of the most exciting stage works being conceived and created anywhere in the world.

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