Allison Russell on What She’s Learned Playing Persephone in ‘Hadestown,’ How a Hozier Connection Helped Land Her Broadway Debut, and Why the Show Feels More Cathartic This Year
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Allison Russell, the Grammy-winning Americana artist, is coming back up from the underground.
On Sunday night, she finishes up a 15-week run in Broadway’s “Hadestown,” which has left her with a very sunny disposition, even if her role as the goddess Persephone requires her to spend a lot of time well away from sunlight, being fated to spend half of each year in a dim underworld in order for the earth to survive.
Persephone suffers a mixed fate, but Russell has thrived in the role, which sees her going out with a bang with no fewer than five shows in three days this weekend.
Eight shows a week might seem like a tough regimen for someone who has never done professional theater before, but the Canadian-bred singer/songwriter says there were aspects of it that were easier than being a touring artist — like going home to her own bed near the Walter Kerr Theatre every night.
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