Hedwig and the Angry Inch

June 14 – July 28, 2019

Text by John Cameron Mitchell
Music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
Directed by Toma Langston
Music Directed by Jeremy Ramey

FEATURING: Will Lidke (Hedwig), Brittney Brown (Yitzhak), Jacob Gilchrist (Luther, Tommy), Adriana Tronco (Mom), with Perry Cowdery, Joseph Drzemiecki. Carlos Mendoza, Jeremy Ramey, and Jakob Smith as “The Angry Inch.”

PRODUCTION TEAM: Colt Frank (Scenic Design), Robert Hornbostel (Sound Design), James Kolditz (Lighting Design/Projection Design), Robert S. Kuhn (Costume Design), Keith Ryan (Wig Design), Matthew Zalinski (Properties Design), Matthew R, Chase (Associate Sound Designer), Kathy Logelin (Dialect Coach), Giselle Castro, Manae Hammond (Sound Engineers), Hai Alvarez-Millard (Production Stage Manager/Scenic Painter), Daryl Ritchie (Production Manager/Technical Director).

Hedwig and the Angry Inch poster art
Meet Hedwig Schmidt, an East German rock and roll goddess whose botched sex change operation left her with just “an angry inch.” Now, she and her band are out to right many wrongs. This landmark 1998 musical won the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2016 and you can see it in the sort of cabaret setting where it began.
“Hedwig is always a show driven by a central star performance and there’s no question that Lidke rises to that challenge. ”

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

“a knockout of a virtuosic performance by Chicago actor Will Lidke… aptly brash and bawdy… sheer unrelenting intensity… (costume and wigs provide) a sensational array of eye candy…”

Hedy Weiss, WTTW11.com

“Four Stars…pure, inflammable bliss… Trask’s songs pop with the force of a pipe bomb…”

Alex Huntsberger, TimeOut

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Punk rock band from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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