Opening act: Child Ballads with Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

Featuring Mitchell as Eurydice, Reed Foehl as Hades, KC Groves as Persephone, Jefferson Hamer as Orpheus, and Esme Patterson, Sarah Anderson, Genny Patterson (of Paper Bird) as the Fates, plus Michael Chorney and the Hadestown Orchestra.

A songwriter of startling clarity and depth, Anais Mitchell has proven herself a brilliant poet and storyteller in her latest work “Hadestown.” Fearlessly emotive, she weaves her stories into an effortlessly beautiful and cohesive tapestry.

Hadestown is an epic "folk opera" and a contemporary version of the classic tale of Orpheus and his doomed quest to rescue his love Eurydice from the Underworld. In Mitchell's hands, however, the familiar saga is re-imagined in a United States that simultaneously evokes the Depression-era past, the current financial tribulations, and a post-apocalyptic future. It's a land where people hide behind walls in a misguided attempt to preserve their "freedom" and protect their riches. At its core, Hadestown is a love story set at a time "when the chips are down" - an epic tale on a personal scale, a saga both ancient and new, mythical and all too real. The music ranges from classic American folk forms such as country gospel, ragtime, blues and early jazz to approximations of rock, swing and avant-garde - all of it said to be "immediate, accessible and inviting."

Wrote blogocritics.org, "It's a musical opera that's unlike any opera you've ever witnessed. It's Indie rock mixed with Dixieland. It's Homer's Odyssey as performed by Pink Floyd."