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Review: Hedwig and her Angry Inch visit SPACE

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 18, 2011

Though Hedwig's content and style are edgy and glammed up, it's also nonetheless a literary experience, with beautiful sequences depicting various epiphanies about power and love, fissured identities, and the creation of art and selves, for both ill and euphoria. "The gods," as Hedwig herself pronounces, "would be terrified."

Megan Grumbling can be reached at mgrumbling@hotmail.com.

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