What originally started as a concept album, then a community project, has over the passing of many years, found itself a record-breaking New York production, currently playing at the National Theatre ahead of a Broadway run! HADESTOWN is taking the musical theatre world by storm and if these reviews are anything to go by, it's got a long life ahead of it!
Onwards - and never looking back!
The Guardian - ★★★★
Mihael Billington: This is a show that escapes easy definition. There are some cracking songs in Rachel Chavkin and Anaïs Mitchell’s haunting journey through the underworld...
Evening Standard - ★★★★
Henry Hitchings: Hadestown is a defiantly original musical...Sometimes operatic and sometimes bluesy, it manages to sound seductively hushed one moment and rollicking the next...
TimeOut - ★★★★
Andrzej Lukowski: ‘Hadestown’ is not perfect, but it is really, really good. The wonderfully diverse songs of Mitchell’s expanded, virtually sung-through soundtrack are the bedrock...
Daily Mail - ★★★★
Quentin Letts: Greek mythology gets a jazz-musical makeover...The show features tunes reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, as well as songs of political protest...
The Arts Desk - ★★★★
Marianka Swain: The bare bones of the story are familiar, but Mitchell puts an interesting spin on them...The mythic power is retained, along with gods and the Underworld, however the outlook is distinctly contemporary...
iNews - ★★★★
Rob Hastings: When the lights go out for the interval midway through Hadestown, I’m already making a mental list of friends I must text after the show, telling them how much they’d surely love it...
Theatre Cat - ★★★★
Libby Purves: Bluesy, folky, beautifully paced and musically satisfying, it is a treat: touching without sentimentality and with enough topical bite to startle without hammering the point...
Morning Star - ★★★★★
Simon Parsons: A brilliant musical reworking of Greek myth at the National Theatre which chimes with the Trump era...a celebration of the power of song and story-telling as a medium for hope...
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