Hadestown has confirmed the return of this multi-award-winning new musical to the UK. Winner of 8 Tony® Awards together with ‘Best Musical’ and a Grammy® Award for ‘Best Musical Theatre Album’, Hadestown will make its West End premiere on the Lyric Theatre from Saturday 10 February 2024. This announcement marks the present’s extremely anticipated return to London 5 years after its bought out run on the National Theatre in 2018.
Hadestown options music, lyrics and e-book by acclaimed Grammy® successful singer-songwriter and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Anaïs Mitchell, who originated Hadestown as an indie theatre challenge and acclaimed album. Mitchell then reworked the present right into a genre-defying new musical alongside inventive collaborator and Tony® Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin, whose theatre credit embrace Mission Drift (National Theatre) and American Clock (The Old Vic).
Hadestown takes you on an unforgettable journey to the underworld and again, intertwining two mythic love tales – that of younger dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his spouse Persephone. A deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical expertise, Hadestown invitations you to think about how the world may very well be.
Assisted Performances:
Captioned Performance: Saturday 20 April 2024 at 2.30pm
Audio Described Performance: Saturday 27 April at 2.30pm
BSL Interpreted Performance: Saturday 4 May at 2.30pm
Captioned Performance: Wednesday 12 June at 7.30pm
Captioned Performance: Wednesday 12 June 2024, 19:30
Audio Described Performance: Wednesday 19 June at 7.30pm
BSL Interpreted Performance: Wednesday 26 June at 7.30pm