Hadestown (2016 Off-Broadway Premiere)

Anaïs Mitchell’s 'Hadestown' exploded onto the Off-Broadway stage at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2016, standing as an absolute, genre-defying sensation that laid the foundation for its subsequent global dominance. Conceived as a haunting, folk-jazz musical allegory that adapts the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice into a post-apocalyptic, Great Depression-era industrial landscape, the narrative tracks an idealistic young musician who journeys down into a subterranean corporate fortress to rescue his starving lover from a tyrannical capitalist tycoon. Directed by Rachel Chavkin, the historic premiere starred Damon Daunno.