Hadestown Announces First UK and Ireland Tour for 2027

Hadestown is leaving the West End road map for the first time as a full UK and Ireland tour. Producers have confirmed that the Tony-winning folk-jazz musical will open at Curve, Leicester, in February 2027, then travel through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, while the London staging continues at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.

For British Theatre audiences that is a double story: a national tour that finally takes Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin's underworld romance beyond central London, and a reminder that the Lyric run remains the place to book if you want the West End company now. Tour inventory is not yet listed on British Theatre. London tickets are.

What has been announced

The UK and Ireland tour is framed as the first national tour of the current Hadestown phenomenon that already conquered Broadway and settled into a long West End life at the Lyric. The opening engagement is at Curve, Leicester, from February 2027. From there the company is scheduled to visit a long list of cities and towns, including Salford, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Southampton, Norwich, Canterbury, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, Sheffield, Hull, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, Chester and Sunderland, with further dates still to be announced by the producers.

Official tour information is being published at tour.hadestown.com. Casting for the touring company, and a full creative credit list for the road production, have not yet been released in the materials British Theatre is working from. This article will not invent names, ticket prices or venue-by-venue on-sale dates. When those land on first-party channels, and when British Theatre can attach live book links, we will update.

Tour cities at a glance

Even before individual box offices open their own holds, the shape of the itinerary tells you who this tour is for. It is not a short London transfer. It is a multi-month sweep designed to put Hadestown into mid-scale and large regional lyric houses, Scottish and Welsh stops, and both Dublin and Belfast.

Opening in Leicester puts the first night outside London, which matters for audiences who have followed the show through Broadway bootlegs, the cast album streams and the West End reviews but have not yet made the trip to Shaftesbury Avenue. The later Irish dates extend that reach across the water. Scottish stops in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and the Welsh date in Cardiff, underline that this is being sold as a full national and Ireland tour rather than an England-only loop.

Exact performance calendars, seat maps and prices will differ by venue. Until British Theatre has live regional book products, treat every tour city as announced, not yet bookable here. Do not assume that a London Lyric ticket is a substitute for a Leicester or Dublin seat. They are different companies and different inventory streams once the tour is fully on sale.

West End context: why the Lyric run still matters

Hadestown did not arrive in London as a cold Broadway transfer with no local history. The piece had a major developmental life at the National Theatre before Broadway's Tony sweep, and the West End staging at the Lyric has been the UK's ongoing home for the production. That matters for anyone planning 2026 and early 2027 theatregoing: the tour announcement does not close the London shop.

The Lyric is an intimate West End house on Shaftesbury Avenue, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus. The production uses that closeness. Mitchell's score moves between folk ballad, blues and New Orleans jazz colour as it braids the Orpheus and Eurydice story with Hades and Persephone. Chavkin's staging keeps the band and the industrial revolve in the room with the audience. If you want that specific West End evening, the Lyric remains the booking target.

Awards context helps explain the demand without needing hype. On Broadway, Hadestown won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, and the original Broadway cast album took a Grammy. Those credentials are why a first UK and Ireland tour is news beyond musical-theatre diehards: the title already has mainstream recognition, and the road company will be chasing audiences who know Wait for Me and Road to Hell from playlists as much as from theatre seats.

How to book on British Theatre right now

Be precise about what is and is not on sale through this site today.

London still on sale; tour TBA on BT. You can book the Lyric Theatre West End production from the show page (the show page owns booking): See Hadestown tickets and booking on the show page. That link is for London only. It is not a tour ticket.

UK and Ireland tour dates are announced by the producers, but British Theatre does not yet list live regional book products for those stops. We will not invent catalogue coverage, soft-404 book shells, or guessed prices. When venue-level inventory is truly on sale through British Theatre, expect show pages that own booking, in the usual /shows/ pattern.

Practical planning tip while you wait: if your city is on the announced list and you are comparing a London trip against a local date, watch both the Lyric calendar and the official tour site. Do not buy a London seat expecting it to be exchanged for a regional performance. Live theatre inventory does not work that way.

What the show is, for first-timers

If the tour announcement is your first encounter with Hadestown, the premise is simple and the telling is not. Orpheus, a young musician, tries to bring Eurydice back from Hadestown, the industrial underworld ruled by Hades. Alongside that myth runs the older, colder marriage of Hades and Persephone. Mitchell's songs do the emotional lifting: hope, doubt, labour, and the question of whether a song can change a fate the audience already knows.

You do not need a classics degree. The show narrates what you need. What you do need is a willingness to sit with a score that is closer to American roots music than to a conventional West End belt-fest. That difference is part of why the piece travels well on a cast album and why a tour can speak to audiences who might not usually book a Shaftesbury Avenue musical.

Age guidance and running time for the London production are published on the Hadestown show page. Touring presentations can vary slightly by venue policy, so check the local house when regional pages go live.

What happens next

Three watches from the Global desk:

First, touring cast and creative announcements. Until names are official, treat every social rumour as unverified. Second, venue-by-venue on-sale waves. Regional theatres often stagger priority windows, friends schemes and general onsales; British Theatre will only attach book CTAs when the product is genuinely live. Third, the relationship between the Lyric sit-down and the road company. As long as London remains on sale, Hadestown is both a West End ticket and a forthcoming touring title. That dual status is useful for readers and dangerous for sloppy CTAs, which is why this piece keeps them separate.

Producers named on the tour announcement include Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy. Further producing and presenting partners for individual dates may appear as local press releases land. We will follow those without copying unverified seat counts or dynamic prices into this article.

Bottom line for ticket buyers

Hadestown's first UK and Ireland tour is real news for anyone outside London who has been waiting for the show to come to them, and for Londoners who want to understand how the road plans sit beside the Lyric run. Use the Hadestown show page to book London if that is the evening you want. Treat every tour city as announced and TBA on British Theatre until a live first-party book URL appears. When it does, this page and the related show hubs will be the place to move from reading to booking without leaving the British Theatre first-party path.

London still on sale; tour TBA on BT: Hadestown show page (tickets and booking) · venue: Lyric Theatre.