--- title: Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway As the Next Hedwig description: Criss will begin a limited 12-week engagement starting April 29 canonical: https://time.com/3712431/darren-criss-hedge/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-17T21:02:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:29:20.831Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway as the Next 'Hedwig' og:description: Criss will begin a limited engagement starting April 29 og:url: https://time.com/3712431/darren-criss-hedge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecea642c79e4423a/69877f9d428a9ea196cc72cb/463053866-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Darren Criss attends GQ and Giorgio Armani Grammys After Party in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway as the Next 'Hedwig' twitter:description: Criss will begin a limited engagement starting April 29 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecea642c79e4423a/69877f9d428a9ea196cc72cb/463053866-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway as the Next _Hedwig_ > Sponsored content. 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Darren Criss attends GQ and Giorgio Armani Grammys After Party in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2015.Joe Scarnic—Getty Images by [Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly Feb 17, 2015 9:02 PM UTC For a show originally intended as a limited engagement, _Hedwig_ sure has legs. Which, come to think of it, is no surprise at all. _Glee_ star Darren Criss will be the latest actor to don the high heels and fishnets of rock singer Hedwig Robinson in Broadway’s smash revival of _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_. Criss will begin a limited 12-week engagement starting April 29 at the Belasco Theatre, following John Cameron Mitchell’s exit on April 26\. This marks the fifth headliner to play the role since the production opened in April 2014. The role signifies a return to Broadway for Criss, who made his debut succeeding Daniel Radcliffe in _How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying_. The three weeks in which Criss starred in 2012 broke the box office, earning over $4 million and becoming the most profitable three weeks of the revival’s 11-month run. Criss will replace current star Mitchell, the show’s co-creator (with composer and lyricist Stephen Trask) who has taken up Hedwig’s mantle almost two decades after the musical’s original off Broadway production. Mitchell is the fourth Hedwig in the revival, preceded by _Dexter_ alum Michael C. Hall (who temporarily steps in for an injured Mitchell from Feb. 17 through 21) and _Girls_ and _The Book of Mormon_star Andrew Rannells. All four men follow the revival’s original star, Neil Patrick Harris, who earned a Tony Award for the role last June. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/17/darren-criss-broadways-next-hedwig?asdf) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3712431/darren-criss-hedge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3712431/darren-criss-hedge/"},"headline":"Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway as the Next Hedwig","datePublished":"2015-02-17T21:02:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:29:20.831Z","description":"Criss will begin a limited engagement starting April 29","url":"https://time.com/3712431/darren-criss-hedge/","keywords":["broadway","Theater","Musical"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecea642c79e4423a/69877f9d428a9ea196cc72cb/463053866-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecea642c79e4423a/69877f9d428a9ea196cc72cb/463053866-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Darren Criss attends GQ and Giorgio Armani Grammys After Party in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2015.","caption":"Darren Criss attends GQ and Giorgio Armani Grammys After Party in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2015.","creditText":"Joe Scarnic—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3712431/darren-criss-hedge/","name":"Darren Criss Will Return to Broadway as the Next Hedwig"}}]}] ```