Articles about Hadestown
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In this week's edition, we caught up with Damon Duano, who stars as 'Orpheus' in HADESTOWN, playing at New York Theatre Workshop.
Damon Daunno and Nabiyah Be sing "Wedding Song" from the musical by Anaïs Mitchell.
Mitchell's folk opera is in the midst of an off-Broadway run at New York Theater Workshop.
Anaïs Mitchell's musical is directed by Rachel Chavkin.
In this week's edition, we caught up with Shaina Taub, who stars as 'a Fate' in HADESTOWN, playing at New York Theatre Workshop.
It's been a long time since I walked out of a musical and couldn't wait to hear the score again. Luckily, the singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell recorded a concept album for Hadestown,…
by Samuel L. Leiter That subterranean rumbling you may feel as you walk by the New York Theatre Workshop isn't a forgotten subway line suddenly come to life; it's the basso-profundo voice…
Responsible for this busy pseudo-poetic edging towards pretentious production is the imaginative and theatrical director Rachel Chavkin
If you are going to reimagine the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice " a poor poet guitar strumming musician with a voice to die for and his ravishing but hungry counterpart as a sung-through fo…
his almost sung-through version of the much told story has been brought to fascinating, lushly staged new life.
By Jordan Cohen In 2010, Anaïs Mitchell, who has been called the "queen of modern folk music," gained critical acclaim for the release of Hadestown, a folk opera concept alb…
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss The Total Bent @ The Public Theater, Hadestown @ New York Theater Workshop, Chita Rivera at Café Carlyle, The Roger Re…
In this week's edition, we caught up with Lulu Fall, who stars as 'a Fate' in HADESTOWN, playing at New York Theatre Workshop.
The latest works by Nick Payne ("Constellations") and Stew ("Passing Strange"), along with a clever musical take on the Orpheus myth, all land off-Broadway this week.
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…
The new musical is written by Anaïs Mitchell.
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…
The classic story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told for centuries, and now it has become a folk opera by the gifted songwriter Anaïs Mitchell.
The director of Broadway-bound Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 tackles Greek mythology in a world-premiere musical.
