Hadestown Took the Long Way From Community Theater to Broadway
When Anas Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin talk about Hadestown, they often resort to metaphor. In simplest terms, the folk musical combines two Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone but it resonates with other valences: Theres Hadess industrial underworld versus the organic place above, a potential allegory for climate change;