‘hadestown’ Brings New Orleans Style To Orpheus & Eurydice Tale – Review

Jeremy Gerard, Deadline.com
Mon, 05/23/2016 - 10:51pm

By sheer happenstance — because sometimes in New York it can seem that everything really is happening somewhere nearby — I saw a revival of Tennessee Williams’ lyrically overwrought drama Orpheus Descending in a tenderly lucid, gripping production staged by Austin Pendleton in a Christopher Street church, poor-theater style with not much more than a few sticks of furniture.

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