The Show All aboard the journey to the Underworld! Following a critically acclaimed run at the National Theatre and in New York, this show has now landed in the Lyric Theatre on the West End and has already taken audiences by storm. Hadestown is a musical retelling of two classic Greek tales - the young lovers Orpheus and Eurydice and King Hades and his wife Persephone. As the desperate lovers are struggling through a desolate winter, Eurydice is given an offer she cannot refuse from King Hades. This offer lands her trapped in the Underworld and Orpheus must travel down below to bring her home with only his music to save him. The narrative rooted in mythology is eerily reminiscent of our world today with themes of climate change and capitalism throughout. Packed full of outstanding music and dance numbers, an invite to Hadestown would be wrong to turn down.
History of Hadestown The earliest version of this show was first described as "a DIY theatre project" by creator Anais Mitchell when it showed in the cities of Barre and Vergennes back in 2006. In the next year, the show became a ten-city tour in Mitchell's home state of Vermont and Massachusetts. Fast forward to 2016 and the show officially premiered at New York Theatre Workshop with an EP being released afterwards featuring four songs from the musical, recorded live by creator and singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. 2019 saw Hadestown taken to Broadway, which followed with massive success and is still a present popular show to this day. The first showing of Hadestown in the UK was at the National Theatre in London, running from November 2018 to January 2019 and it came back to the West End in February 2024.
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Awards and what the Critics say "The spellbinding West End incarnation of this beloved folk musical was worth the wait." - LondonTheatre "Anais Mitchell's infernally good musical finally takes up its rightful space in the West End" - TimeOut "Unlike any musical I have seen before" - iNews The Broadway production is the winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography and Best Orchestrations. The West End production was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival
Theatre details
Lyric Theatre
Lyric Theatre 29 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 7ES
Directions: Exit Piccadilly Circus Station and head towards Great Windmill Street and The London Pavillion. Head up Great Windmill Street onto Shaftesbury Avenue. Stay on Shaftesbury Avenue until you reach the Lyric Theatre on your left hand side. This is approximately a 2 minute walk.
Tube: Piccadilly Circus station is 1 minute walk (140 metres)
Lyric Theatre 29 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 7ES
Closest Tube
Piccadilly Circus station is 1 minute walk (140 metres)
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