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Hadestown
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a starving young girl, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.

Eurydice
play written by Jean Anouilh
Orpheus Descending
play written by Tennessee Williams
Orpheus
ballet by George Balanchine
Slavic Orpheus
a play by Zoran Stefanović