{"id":291647,"date":"2026-06-01T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:02:43","slug":"tony-award-winning-musical-passing-strange-opens-at-studio620-june-11-june-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291647\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Award-winning musical PASSING STRANGE opens at Studio@620 June 11 \u2013 June 21 \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Erica Sutherlin\u00a0will direct Passing Strange, winner of 3 Drama Desk awards and the Tony for Best Musical, opening at <a class=\"cTdsj duxMi\" href=\"https:\/\/thestudioat620.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-hook=\"web-link\">Studio@620<\/a>\u00a0June 11 and running through June 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweeklychallenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Passing-Strange-650px-x-550px.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74217\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Passing-Strange-650px-x-550px-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-74217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passing Strange at Studio@620 opens June 11<\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-7lazn5899\" dir=\"auto\">From the rhythmic mind of singer-songwriter and performance artist <a class=\"cTdsj duxMi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concordtheatricals.com\/a\/101868\/stew-stewart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-hook=\"web-link\">Stew Stewart<\/a>\u00a0comes a rock-musical play following the story of a young bohemian who charts a course for \u201cthe real\u201d through sex, drugs, and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This genre-bending musical score will keep audience members entertained and engaged, following the story of \u201c<a class=\"cTdsj duxMi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/tampa\/article\/PASSING-STRANGE-to-Close-The-Studio620s-Record-Breaking-Season-20260520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-hook=\"web-link\">The Youth<\/a>,\u201d a young Black musician who packs his bags, leaves his middle-class home behind, and heads to Europe on a wild, funny, and chaotic quest for art and absolute authenticity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erica Sutherlin\u00a0will direct Passing Strange, winner of 3 Drama Desk awards and the Tony for Best Musical, opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-291647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}