Starts September 2
The show is a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes to the land of the dead in hopes of retrieving girl, boy loses girl again. “It’s an old song,” sings our narrator, Hermes (André De Shields, a master of arch razzle-dazzle). “And we’re gonna sing it again.” But the newness of Anaïs Mitchell’s musical account—and Rachel Chavkin’s gracefully dynamic staging—bring this old story to quivering life.—Adam Feldman