New musical Hadestown is full of great songs and incredible performances – review
For those who’ve not heard of Hadestown before, it’s been around in some form or another for the best part of 20 years. Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell starting working on these ideas in the mid-2000s in Vermont, before taking the songs to the studio to record 2010’s lo-fi folk album Hadestown.
Following a series of further workshops and small-scale productions off-Broadway during the 2010s, a fully-fledged musical landed at the National Theatre right here in London for a short stint at the end of 2018.
It was then re-imagined for Broadway and has enjoyed a hugely successful five-year run there, sweeping the Tony Awards, with the cast recording also picking up a Grammy Award.
It’s no surprise that the show’s return to the UK – and its West End debut, at the Lyric Theatre – is being greeted with some fanfare.
