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Meet Hedwig's Latest Glamorous Punk-Rock Couple, Taye Diggs and Rebecca Naomi Jones

The pair will star together in John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s musical at the Belasco Theatre.

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Taye Diggs is Broadway's latest Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Taye Diggs is Broadway's latest Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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The Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will welcome stage and screen star Taye Diggs in the title role for a 12-week engagement beginning July 22 at the Belasco Theatre. To kick off his run, Diggs and costar Rebecca Naomi Jones met the press at The Lambs Club restaurant on June 30.

Rebecca Naomi Jones and Taye Diggs are the newest husband-and-wife team in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theatre.
Rebecca Naomi Jones and Taye Diggs are the newest husband-and-wife team in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theatre.
(© David Gordon)

Diggs' run in Hedwig marks his first New York stage appearance since 2005, when he starred in Second Stage Theatre's off-Broadway revival of A Soldier's Play. His musical theater credits also include Carousel, Rent, Chicago, Wicked, and Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party. Onscreen he has been seen in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, the film versions of Rent and Chicago, and the series Private Practice and Murder in the First.

Hedwig coauthor Stephen Trask joins stars Rebecca Naomi Jones and Taye Diggs for a family photos.
Hedwig coauthor Stephen Trask joins stars Rebecca Naomi Jones and Taye Diggs for a family photo.
(© David Gordon)

Written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch follows the titular transgender rock performer as she recounts her life during a concert at Broadway's Belasco Theatre, where the musical runs. Michael Mayer directs the revival.

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