Darren Criss to play ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ out West

Darren Criss, the former Glee star, had so much fun playing an East German transsexual on Broadway that he's taking her on the road.

Criss will kick off a national tour of Hedwig and the Angry Inch in October at the SHN Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles a month later. A new Hedwig will be announced later who will then lead a national tour.

Criss made his Broadway debut in 2012 as J. Pierrepont Finch in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. He was one of several Hedwigs who took over from Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway last year, including Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall and Taye Diggs.

Written by John Cameron Mitchell and composer Stephen Trask, Hedwig is a tale of obsession, glam rock, a botched sex-change operation and a quest for identity.

It was a cult hit off-Broadway and made into a 2001 film.