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Hadestown, National Theatre review - new folk musical is hotter than hell by Marianka Swain

An alternative take on a classic myth produces sizzling resultsThe road to full musical theatre production has been a long one for Hadestown. It began back in 2006, with Anaïs Mitchell's song cycle " a folk/jazz take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth " toured around Vermont in a school bus, grew into an ecstatically received concept album in 2010, and has gone through further development with director Rachel Chavki…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PM on November 13, 2018

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