Taye Diggs will be Broadway’s next Hedwig!

Darren Criss has just settled into the title role of Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch and already his successor has been found.

Producers announced Monday that Taye Diggs will takeover as the transgender punk rocker on July 22, three days after Criss’ final performance.

In addition to Criss, others to play the role during the current Broadway run in the past year have been Tony winner Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall and John Cameron Mitchell who originated the role Off-Broadway and played it on film.

Diggs, divorced from Idina Menzel, will play Hedwig for a 12 week run at the Belasco Theatre in New York City.

It will mark Diggs’ first New York stage role since the 2005 revival of A Soldier’s Play. He made his Broadway debut in 1994 in the Tony Award-winning revival of Carousel.

His best-known Broadway role is that of Benny in the musical Rent, a role he recreated in the 2005 film version.

Diggs starred for six seasons on ABC’s drama Private Practice. and now stars in the TNT drama Murder in the First.