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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
