VIDEO: HEDWIG's Taye Diggs Talks 'Role of a Lifetime' on 'Today'
by Caryn Robbins
- Aug 12, 2015
Broadway star Taye Diggs talks about his lead role as the gender-bending rock singer Hedwig Schmidt in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." 'It's the role of a lifetime,' says the actor. 'I guarantee I won't ever play anything as challenging.'
TV: Taye Diggs Preps for His Turn in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH!
by Nicole Rosky
- Jun 30, 2015
Taye Diggs will soon make his return to Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, taking over the lead role in the 2014 Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival from Darren Criss. Diggs will play a limited 12-week engagement starting Wednesday, July 22 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street). Hedwig will mark Diggs' first New York stage role since the 2005 revival of A Soldier's Play. Diggs met the press today and you can go inside the special day below!
TV: Darren Criss & Rebecca Naomi Jones Prep for Broadway Returns in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH!
by TV - Press Previews
- Apr 8, 2015
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Darren Criss will return to Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Tony Award winning Best Musical Revival, for a limited 12-week engagement starting Wednesday, April 29 at the Belasco Theatre. As previously announced John Cameron Mitchell will play his final performance as Hedwig on Sunday, April 26. Additionally, Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot, Passing Strange), will join the cast, in the role of Yitzhak, beginning Tuesday April 14 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street).
The new company just met the press and you can check out what they had to say on the big day below!
STAGE TUBE: Lena Hall Surprised Onstage By Her Former HEDWIGS!
by Robert Diamond
- Apr 5, 2015
We're still trying to figure out what you call a set of HEDWIGs, but we think Lena Hall said it best onstage last night when she quipped 'I never thought I'd see all four of my husbands on one stage.' Now, we've got video!
STAGE TUBE: HEDWIG Fans Bid Lena Hall Farewell with Touching Messages
by Sally Henry Fuller
- Apr 4, 2015
As BroadwayWorld previously announced, Hedwig and the Angry Inch's Lena Hall plays her final performance as Yitzhak tonight, April 4. Below, watch a compilation of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH fans' heart-warming farewell messages to the Tony Award-winner!
STAGE TUBE: HEDWIG's Michael C. Hall Performs 'Midnight Radio' in Don Hill Tribute Show
by Anna Bencivengo
- Dec 8, 2014
Yesterday Michael C. Hall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch composer/lyricist/co-creator Stephen Trask and punk rockers Tits of Clay (the off-stage alter ego of the band performing as the Angry Inch in the current Broadway production of the show) returned to the site of the show's genesis- the world-famous Don Hill's, now re-opened as The Hills NYC- to play a special Hedwig-themed tribute to legendary booker, promoter and club owner Don Hill.