In the title role, Will Lidke is a nova of charisma. It hasn't always been blindingly obvious that Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a riff on Plato's "Symposium." But the Greek fable it offers about the origin of love is at the heart of this hard-rock musical by John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) about "a mere slip of a girly boy from Communist East Germany" who…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on June 26, 2019