Hadestown to embark on first UK and Ireland tour in 2027

Original West End cast of Hadestown. Photo by Marc Brenner.

The Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Hadestown, will embark on its first-ever UK and Ireland tour in 2027 with performances beginning in February at the Curve Theatre, Leicester.

Blending American songwriting traditions, from indie folk, to pop, blues, and New Orleans-inspired jazz, Hadestown has music, lyrics, and book by acclaimed Tony and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Anaïs Mitchell, who originated Hadestown as an indie theatre project and album before transforming the show into a genre-defying new musical alongside artistic collaborator and Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin.

Hadestown is currently playing at London’s Lyric Theatre, where it recently returned more than eight years after its sold-out engagement at the National Theatre in 2018. It is still performing on Broadway, where it has been staged at the Walter Kerr Theatre since 2019. Hadestown is the winner of 8 Tony Awards on Broadway, including ‘Best Musical’ and a Grammy Award for ‘Best Musical Theatre Album.’ Read our Hadestown review.

The musical whisks you away on an unforgettable journey to the underworld and back, intertwining two mythic love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone.  A deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience, Hadestown invites you to imagine how the world could be.

The highly anticipated tour of Hadestown will open at the Curve Theatre, Leicester on 19 February 2027, before visiting Salford, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Norwich, Canterbury, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, Sheffield, Hull, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, Chester, and Sunderland.

Further dates, casting and full creative team to be announced.