Jul 1, 2016
"Failure is a very creative place," asserts James Nicola, artistic director of New York Theater Workshop, where singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin developed Hadestown, a folk opera based on the Orpheus myth. But is failure really so useful, or is it just, well, failure? Rachel and Anais consider that question, describe the attributes of a good local bar, and report on the whereabouts of Smoke, the missing-and-presumed-dead cat. And yes, they sing. Gloriously.