Following record-breaking runs at New York Theatre Workshop, Canada's Citadel Theatre, and the National Theatre, the new musical Hadestown opened on Broadway last night BroadwayWorld was the…
What did critics think of the new jazz-inflected musical?
Theatregoers need not travel all the way to the underworld to catch Broadway's latest hit. Hadestown, following runs atNew York Theatre Workshop, Canada's Citadel Theatre, and London'sNation…
The celebrated new musical Hadestown opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 17. The musical by Anaïs Mitchell is based on Greek mythology and follows Orpheus' quest to overcome Had…
The cast and creative team talk what changed Off-Broadway to Broadway, secret backstories of their characters, and more on the opening night red carpet.
Broadway has officially gone way down under the ground with the opening of Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theatre All throughout opening night, cast member Kay Trinidad showed BroadwayWorld be…
Anaïs Mitchell's folk opera, based on the legend of Orpheus, opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre April 17.
With a stage career spanning half a century that includes dozens of notable performances in New York alone, Andre De Shields knows a thing or two about seducing an audience. And that's exact…
Some musicals take a hellish road to the Great White Way. For "Hadestown," whose plot entwines stories from Greek mythology focused on Hades, Persephone, Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes, and the F…
Following record-breaking runs at New York Theatre Workshop, Canada's Citadel Theatre, and the National Theatre, the new musical Hadestown opened on Broadway last night BroadwayWorld was the…
Following record-breaking runs at New York Theatre Workshop, Canada's Citadel Theatre, and the National Theatre, the new musical Hadestown opened on Broadway last night
"Hadestown" is burning up the stage!
As far as tales as old as time go, the stories of Greek mythology are pretty high up there, those epic stories of gods and men that have been told for thousands of years and inspired countle…
Anaïs Mitchell's score turns out to be no match for the devil.
It's a sad song It's a sad tale, it's a tragedy It's a sad song But we sing it anyway 'Cause here's the thing: To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might tu…
After a downtown stop, a concept album based on Greek myths has become a full-scale Broadway entertainment.
The new musical by Anaïs Mitchell opened April 17 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
Following record-breaking runs at New York Theatre Workshop and Canada's Citadel Theatre, and theNational Theatre, the new musical Hadestown opens onBroadway tonight.
"Hadestown" triggered a lot of buzz when this wholly American show (which came to the stage by way of a concept album) premiered at Off Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop in 2016. Arriving…
Broadway is doing some remarkable myth-making this season, or maybe myth-revising. Daniel Fish's Oklahoma! is upending that great American folktale of the frontier. Aaron Sorkin's adaptation…
For a show about hell, "Hadestown" doesn't have much heat. Yes, composer Anaïs Mitchell's musical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, which opened Wednesday on Broadway, sounds pl…
The road to hell is paved with heavenly music in "Hadestown," the exuberant, exhilarating new musical that stands tall among a season of mostly (so far) lackluster Broadway competition. A re…
★★★★ Internationally acclaimed folk opera arrives on Broadway, under Rachel Chavkin's direction The post Hadestown: Anaïs Mitchell's Myths and Hymns, from Way Down…
★★★★ Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell makes an impressive Broadway bow with an infernal musical The post Hadestown: Red, Hot, and Bluesy Score Fuels a Trip to Hell and Ba…