![]() The international hit Come From Away, which recounts the story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them in September 2001, will return to the Ahmanson after a successful engagement during the 2018–2019 season. Performances will continue through June 6. Emmy winner Richard Thomas will star as Atticus Finch in the stage adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, will begin performances April 29. Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, and Ben Miles in The Lehman Trilogy Mark Douet Featuring a book and score by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and direction by Rachel Chavkin, the musical that follows two intertwining love stories will continue through April 4. Hadestown, which won eight 2019 Tony Awards, will begin performances March 2. Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s international hit Les Misérables will follow, running January 26–February 28. The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening, will be presented October 20–November 28.Īfter a six-week engagement in the 2018–2019 season, the Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen, featuring a book by Steven Levenson, a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and direction by Michael Greif, will return to the Ahmanson December 1–January 23, 2021. Stefano Massini's The Lehman Trilogy, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes, will arrive at the Ahmanson following its limited Broadway engagement this spring. Photographs by T Charles Erickson.Center Theatre Group’s 54th season at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre will feature nine productions, including the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, Hadestown. Music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell*ġ35 North Grand Avenue, downtown Los AngelesĪnaïs Mitchell, Hadestown, North American tour, through July 2023, directed by Rachel Chavkin, from top: Morgan Siobhan Green (foreground left) and Nicholas Barasch, with Shea Renne (background left), Bex Odorisio, and Belén Moyano Levi Kreis and Company Kimberly Marable and Company Kevyn Morrow Renne, Odorisio, and Moyano Hadestown Company Morrow, Barasch, and Marable Barasch and Green. HADESTOWN is directed by Rachel Chavkin, a key participant in its development. It’s an old song… It’s a sad song… But we keep singin’ even so… * But rather succumb to the ineradicable power of fate and silence, Orpheus leaves his song unfinished, notes in a continuum for others to join: ![]() Lyrical echoes of our current, slow-motion disaster-the environmental destruction of a planet staring at a capitalist-fascist apocalypse-resonate throughout the show. Strange and wonderful melodies run askew with jagged hooks to drag us in. Set in what could be a decaying New Orleans saloon, the show could just as easily play in a midsummer’s forest or an art deco metropolis. ![]() Hermes ( Levi Kreis) shows up to MC the proceedings and the three Fates ( Shea Renne, Bex Odorisio, and Belén Moyano) bring down the house (“When the Chips Are Down”). Meanwhile, Hades ( Kevyn Morrow) and Persephone ( Kimberly Marable) struggle with issues political and personal-she spends six months of each year in the underworld and the other six in bloom. Orpheus, Hadestown*Īs the 2022 theater season progresses and the post-pandemic audience emerges to frequent old haunts, a sense of community-onstage and off-is happily reborn at the Ahmanson with the long-awaited production of HADESTOWN, Anaïs Mitchell’s raucous remix of several mythological tales in highly imaginative musical form.Īn earnest, determined Eurydice ( Morgan Siobhan Green) crosses paths with Orpheus ( Nicholas Barasch), a sort of idiot savant with a magical voice. T o the world we dream about and the one we live in now.
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