Treasure Treasure will teach us lessons about “the origin of love” as the lead in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a City Theatre production in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, coming to the Greer Cabaret in May 2026.
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Treasure has graced Pittsburgh stages in roles including a searing portrayal of Hamlet for Quantum Theatre, Judas in Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s Jesus Christ Superstar and, most recently, an obsessive personal stylist in PICT’s First Lady.
In the role of Yitzhak, Hedwig’s husband, roadie and backup singer, will be Theo Allyn, whose skills were on display in City Theatre’s uproarious POTUS in 2024. The show will be directed by Robert Ramirez, head of the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University, working with music supervisor Rick Edinger (co-artistic director at the CMU Center for New Work Development) and music director Ben Brosche.
Hedwig, with a book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, was first staged at City Theatre in 2003, starring Anthony Rapp. The 2026 production will be the new-play theater’s first-ever revival.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch was developed in New York City drag and punk clubs in the 1990s, and performed as a musical in 1998, at the Jane Street Theatre. In 2014, it made its way to Broadway, where it won the Tony Award as best musical revival, with stars Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall also earning Tonys.
The show features “a fierce and energetic” score, as it “follows the life, loves and heartbreaks of the legendary Hedwig, an East German rock and roll goddess.”
“Hedwig is a torchbearer for the human spirit,” Treasure said in City Theatre’s announcement. “I was only 2 months old when the wall fell. A longing for liberation and the search for home have been tenets of my life.”
DISCOUNT TICKETS DURING LIGHT UP NIGHT
City Theatre’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will be presented at the Greer Cabaret, Downtown, May 2 – June 7, 2026. Visit https://citytheatrecompany.org/production/100838/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch for more information. For Light Up Night on Saturday, November 22, 2025, between 10 a.m. and 11:59 p.m., $40 tickets to Hedwig and discounts to other performing arts events will be available at https://culturaldistrict.org/pages/lightup.
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