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Broadway fans who didn't manage to catch Hadestown on the big screen this summer have another chance to get themselves to the underworld—and this time without leaving the couch.
Hadestown: The Musical, the filmed stage version of Anaïs Mitchell's Tony-winning hit, will be available to watch at home beginning Tuesday, August 25.
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The digital release is particularly good news for anyone who missed the theatrical run. Hadestown opened in nearly 2,000 movie theaters in July and earned $10.2 million during its opening weekend alone, eventually passing Hamilton's box office record for a live stage capture.
Not to mention that this is the rare chance to see the show's original Broadway principal cast, who reunited in 2025 for a limited engagement at London's Lyric Theatre. Reeve Carney plays Orpheus, Eva Noblezada is Eurydice, André De Shields returns to his Tony-winning role as Hermes, Amber Gray plays Persephone and Patrick Page is Hades. Three performances were filmed for the movie.
The musical itself won eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical. The film was directed by Brett Sullivan, with the stage production directed by Tony winner Rachel Chavkin.
As Time Out's chief theater critic Adam Feldman wrote in his original review of the 2019 production, "Here’s my advice: Go to hell. And by hell, of course, I mean Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell’s fizzy, moody, thrilling new Broadway musical. Ostensibly, at least, the show is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes to the land of the dead in hopes of retrieving girl, boy loses girl again. 'It’s an old song,' sings our narrator, the messenger god Hermes (André De Shields, a master of arch razzle-dazzle). 'And we’re gonna sing it again.' But it’s the newness of Mitchell’s musical account—and Rachel Chavkin’s gracefully dynamic staging—that bring this old story to quivering life."
So, starting August 25, you can finally get to Hadestown without going through the hell that is Times Square. All you need is a screen, a little time and a willingness to have “Wait for Me” stuck in your head for the foreseeable future.