11th Hour Theatre Company’s Next Step series continues with Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s fourth-wall-shattering, genre-bending, 2008 Tony Award-winning musical. Inspired by Shakespeare’s rowdy Elizabethan crowds and the sizzling energy of rock concerts, the character Stew (on Broadway played by the real-life writer Stew) invites us to share his adventures in religion, sex, drugs and music while he searches for “the real.” Barrymore winner Michael Philip O’Brien directs a great cast led by Tony nominee and Barrymore winner Forrest McClendon in a concert version that will hopefully lead to a full production.
Jan. 19-21, $15-$25, Off-Broad Street Theatre, 1636 Sansom St., 267-987-9865, 11thhourtheatrecompany.org.
