In the past week I happened to see two musicals built in similar ways -- HADESTOWN at NYTW and THE TOTAL BENT at The Public. One really grabbed me, whipped me around, shook me up and...
With Hadestown, celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and inventive two-time Obie award-winning director Rachel Chavkin (Three Pianos; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) tra…
In the myth, Eurydice didn't have much of a choice. She died, woke up in the underworld and waited around for Orpheus to save her. Not so in Hadestown, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's …
Hell looks a lot like New Orleans in director Rachel Chavkin’s stunning production of "Hadestown," singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell’s ravishing music-theater piece at New Y…
When the very first lyric of a sung-through show like Hadestown attempts to rhyme "flames" with "hurricanes," you know you're in for a crossover experience. And though I doubt that the songw…
By sheer happenstance — because sometimes in New York it can seem that everything really is happening somewhere nearby — I saw a revival of Tennessee Williams’ lyrically…
Usually, I only tell my enemies to go to hell, but I'm making an exception. Friends, countrymen, whoever "get thee down to New York Theatre Workshop where Anais Mitchell's remarkably diverti…
'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' director Rachel Chavkin delivers a similarly immersive staging of Anais Mitchell's acclaimed concept album based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and …
Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling? Hadestown, a sung-through musical derived from the myth of Orpheus and expanded from a concept album by Anais Mitchell, mixes sweet and sexy folk, rocking…
You're looking down in judgment. You're joined by a couple of hundred other tut-tutters whose opinions are just as set in stone as yours are, but without whom you can't make the decision....
He's taken on Scar, Claude Frollo, the Green Goblin, and the Grinch... but his past characters are not all that bad at least he doesn't see it that way. Now Patrick Page is back on stage at …
New York Theatre Workshop NYTW presents HADESTOWN, written by celebrated singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and developed with and directed by the inventive two-time OBIE award-winning directo…
Like many of the productions at New York Theatre Workshop, Hadestown is a superbly interpretive and entertaining work of story told through music. With a musical score by Anais Mitchel…
This weekend's big news Seth MacFarlane launches 2016 at the Boston Pops, HADESTOWN starts previews at NYTW, Theater Talkhighlights THE HUMANS, Wildhorn amp Murphy's THE COUNT OF MONTE CRIST…
New York Theatre Workshop NYTWpresentsHADESTOWN, written by celebrated singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and developed with and directed by the inventive two-time OBIE award-winning director …
