Hadestown at Charlotte Theatre

“Hadestown” features the book, music, and lyrics by Anais Mitchell; direction by Rachel Chavkin; choreography by David Neumann; associate direction by So Young Park; music direction by Jung Lim Han; and associate choreography by Yu Seon Hong.

The musical follows the two reimagined love stories: that of Orpheus and Eurydice; Hades and Persephone. “Hadestown” takes the audience along for a ride to the underworld and back. Inspired by the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, Mitchell’s “Hadestown” was first performed before an audience as an indie theater project, which she later turned into an acclaimed studio album. 

With Chavkin as Mitchell’s creative collaborator, the show has been transformed, through years of trial and error, into a genre-defying original musical that fuses American folk music and speakeasy-inspired jazz from the 1930s.