I saw Hadestown on Broadway last weekend, and it instantly became one of my favorite musicals. It’s going on a national tour, so see it if you can! The play is a modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in an unnamed American town during a Great Depression-like era. Hades is a titan of industry who owns a dystopian factory town, and Persephone is a goddess of spring (and, like Dionysus, of good times and alcohol)…. Read more