Hadestown adds new UK & Ireland tour dates for 2027

Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Hadestown ‘s UK and Ireland tour is getting an additional five venues and dates, which begins February 2027 while the show continues its third year in the West End.

Five venues and dates have been added to Hadestown ‘s first-ever UK & Ireland tour, which begins at Curve Theatre, Leicester on 19 February 2027.

The new additions are: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend (25–29 May 2027), Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton (28 September–2 October 2027), New Victoria Theatre, Woking (12–16 October 2027), New Theatre, Oxford (19–23 October 2027), and New Wimbledon Theatre (16–20 November 2027).

Hadestown’s first UK and Ireland tour

Here is the full list of tour dates for Hadestown:

Curve Theatre, Leicester: 19 February – 6 March 2027
Lowry, Salford: 9 – 20 March 2027
Leeds Grand Theatre: 23 – 27 March 2027
Theatre Royal, Nottingham: 30 March – 10 April 2027
Birmingham Hippodrome: 13 – 17 April 2027
Milton Keynes Theatre: 20 – 24 April 2027
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton: 27 April – 1 May 2027
Theatre Royal, Norwich: 11 – 15 May 2027
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury: 18 – 22 May 2027
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend: 25 – 29 May 2027
Theatre Royal, Newcastle: 1 – 5 June 2027
King’s Theatre, Glasgow: 8 – 12 June 2027
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: 15 – 19 June 2027
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen: 22 – 26 June 2027
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: 29 June – 3 July 2027
Liverpool Empire: 6 – 10 July 2027
Dublin: details TBC
Grand Opera House, Belfast: 27 July – 7 August 2027
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: 9 – 18 September 2027
Hull New Theatre: 21 – 25 September 2027
Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton: 28 September – 2 October 2027
Theatre Royal, Plymouth: 5 – 9 October 2027
New Victoria Theatre, Woking: 12 – 16 October 2027
New Theatre, Oxford: 19 – 23 October 2027
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre: 26 – 30 October 2027
Storyhouse, Chester: 2 – 6 November 2027
Sunderland Empire Theatre: 9 – 13 November 2027
New Wimbledon Theatre: 16 – 20 November 2027

The cast and full creative team for the UK and Ireland tour are yet to be announced. The tour is produced by Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy

What is Hadestown about?

Original West End Cast of Hadestown at Lyric Theatre. Donal Finn (Orpheus) and Grace Hodgett-Young (Eurydice). Photo by Marc Brenner

Hadestown reimagines the prophet Orpheus as a songwriter who works in a jazzy bar, and Eurydice as a down and out lost soul who seeks refuge from the cold. The pair fall in love, but as winter approaches and hardships set in, Eurydice is tempted by an offer from Hades, God of the industrial Hadestown. To save her, Orpheus must journey into the underworld, and it will take everything he’s got.

The show’s music, lyrics and book are by Tony and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Anaïs Mitchell, who originated the show as an indie theatre project and album before transforming it into a genre-defying musical alongside artistic collaborator and Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin.

Hadestown blends American songwriting traditions, from indie folk to pop, blues and New Orleans-inspired jazz, and takes audiences on a journey to the underworld and back, intertwining two mythic love stories: young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and King Hades and his wife Persephone.

The musical won eight Tony Awards on Broadway, including Best Musical, and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, and its original broadway cast recording has become one of the most streamed cast albums of all time. The critically acclaimed West End production of Hadestown continues at London’s Lyric Theatre, more than eight years after its sold-out engagement at the National Theatre in 2018.

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Main photo: Caption: Eva Noblezaba, André De Shields, and Reeve Carney in HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL Courtesy of Trafalgar Releasing Credit: Trafalgar Releasing