A must see at Artswest
The Tony Award winning rock musical , Hedwige and the Angry Inch, opened with an explosion of joy, mirth and sheer entertainment this weekend at Artswest.
Originally an off-Broadway in 1998, then a Broadway sensation in 2014, with lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell it is also a film. With a main character who is “genderqueer,” it nevertheless has universal appeal
Let the Good and Bad Times Roll
Rock of Ages, a “jukebox musical” which is to say a musical that features popular songs from the past, opened this past weekend with an enormous amount of youthful energy in a joint production by the University of Washington-Tacoma’s theatre department and Tacoma Little Theatre. 
After a botched sex-change operation, escape from a communist state, and complicated heartbreak punk rock musician Hedwig Robinson sets out to make a name for herself in this cult classic rock musical now showing at The State Theater in Olympia.
