HADESTOWN Creators Set for PERSON PLACE THING Live Show with Randy Cohen at NYTW

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) and FABnyc will co-present a live show with the popular public radio show and podcast Person Place Thing with writer and humorist Randy Cohen, featuring HADESTOWN's celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and inventive two-time Obie award-winning director Rachel Chavkin at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003) on Monday, June 6 at 7:00 pm. The evening will also include musical interludes from HADESTOWN and a brief audience Q&A. Tickets are $10 and be purchased at www.fabnyc.org.

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them, and this presents an opportunity to learn about people through their stories and lives. Host Randy Cohen is most well known as author of The Ethicist weekly column in the The New York Times Magazine for twelve years. Past guests on Person Place Thing include Jill Abramson, Alison Bechdel, Samantha Bee, Ben Brantley, Susie Essman, Melissa Harris Perry, Ed Koch, and David Rakoff.

HADESTOWN opened at New York Theatre Workshop on Monday, May 23, 2016 and will play a limited engagement through Sunday, July 3, 2016. The cast features Nabiyah Be (Queen of the Night) as Eurydice, Damon Daunno (Brief Encounter) as Orpheus, Lulu Fall (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) as a Fate, Amber Gray (An Octoroon) as Persephone, Patrick Page(Spring Awakening) as Hades, Jessie Shelton (Futurity) as a Fate, Chris Sullivan ("The Knick") as Hermes, and Shaina Taub (Old Hats) as a Fate.

HADESTOWN follows Orpheus' mythical quest to overcome Hades and regain the favor of his one true love, Eurydice. Together we travel from wide open plains where love and music are not enough nourishment to survive the winter, down to HADESTOWN, an industrialized world of mindless labor and full stomachs. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell's beguiling melodies and poetic imagination pit nature against industry, faith against doubt, and love against death.

The production features scenery by Rachel Hauck; costumes by Michael Krass; lighting by Bradley King; sound by Rob Kaplowitz; properties by Noah Mease;choreography by David Neumann; dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia; music direction by Liam Robinson; arrangements & orchestrations by Michael Chorney; and co-arrangements & orchestrations and music supervision by Todd Sickafoose. HADESTOWN is co-conceived by Ben t. Matchstick.

HADESTOWN was originally developed with funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center under the supervision of Dale Franzen and Mara Isaacs/Octopus Theatricals. The project was further developed in collaboration with The Broad Stage through NYTW's Artist Workshop programming, including the annual Usual Suspects Summer Residency at Dartmouth College and the Larson Lab Studio.HADESTOWN is a winner of a Richard Rodgers Production Award, administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Tickets for HADESTOWN are $95, and are now available for performances through July 3.

Season memberships for the recently announced 2016/17 season are now on sale at NYTW.org or 212-460-5475 and include NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM by NYTW 2050 Fellow Nathan Alan Davis (Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea) and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian (The Convert) in Fall 2016; William Shakespeare's OTHELLO, directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony Award winner Sam Gold (Fun Home) and featuring David Oyelowo (Royal Shakespeare Company's The Histories, Selma) in the title role and Daniel Craig (Betrayal, Spectre) as 'Iago' in Winter 2016; THE OBJECT LESSON, by NYTW Usual Suspect Geoff Sobelle (all wear bowlers), directed by NYTW Usual Suspect David Neumann (Restless Eye), with scenic installation design by Steven Dufala in Spring 2017; and NYTW Usual Suspect Mfoniso Udofia'sSOJOURNERS and HER PORTMANTEAU, presented in repertory, directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and former NYTW 2050 Fellow Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (The Mysteries) in Spring 2017.

The performance schedule for HADESTOWN is as follows: Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm, Thursday and Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7pm. Exceptions: There will be no 7:00pm performance on Sunday, June 5.

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