Hadestown Tours UK & Ireland.
Tony and Grammy-winning Hadestown announces first-ever UK and Ireland tour starting February 2027.
The Tony and Grammy-winning musical Hadestown will embark on its first-ever UK and Ireland tour in February 2027, with performances beginning on 19 February 2027 at the Curve Theatre in Leicester. After a successful run in London’s West End at the Lyric Theatre, the production will move beyond the capital, with additional dates to be announced and an announced stop in Dublin among the early plans. The show’s creators and producers say the tour will bring Anaïs Mitchell’s genre-blending music—rooted in American folk traditions and New Orleans-inspired jazz—to new audiences across the region. Hadestown won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has also earned major honors including a Grammy for its musical theatre album, alongside subsequent WhatsOnStage Awards. The tour will take audiences on a reimagined Orpheus-and-Eurydice story intertwined with the myth of King Hades and Persephone, framed as a hopeful journey “to the underworld and back.” Casting and full creative team details for the touring production have not yet been released.
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The tour schedule announced so far includes a detailed route: after Leicester (19 Feb 2027), Hadestown will also play cities such as Salford, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Norwich, Canterbury, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, Sheffield, Hull, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, Chester, and Sunderland, with more dates to follow.
The production’s UK track record is framed as part of why the tour is happening now: one report says Hadestown is in its “third smash-hit year in London’s West End,” and notes it recently returned to the Lyric Theatre “more than eight years after its sold-out engagement at the National Theatre in 2018.”
Beyond Mitchell’s role, articles highlight her credentials and the creative team behind the stage transformation: Mitchell is described as a “BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winner,” and the show was transformed into its genre-defying musical “alongside” Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin.
One source adds specificity to the show’s non-Tony recognition: Hadestown’s WhatsOnStage Awards include “Best Supporting Performer in a Musical for Melanie La Barrie” and “Best Musical Direction/Supervision.”
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