(OCEAN CITY, NJ) -- Greater Ocean City Theatre Company presents Hadestown: Teen Edition from October 18-19, 2025 at Ocean City Music Pier. This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. It features Book, Music, and Lyrics by Anaïs Mitchell.

Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.

Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.

Performances take place Saturday, October 18 at 7:30pm and Sunday, October 19 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 and available for purchase online. * All seats are General Admission - no assigned seating as this production is being performed with a thrust stage. Ocean City Music Pier is located at 825 Boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey.

Among Hadestown's many awards include: eight 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Orchestrations; four 2019 Drama Desk Awards; six 2019 Outer Critics Circle Awards; 2019 Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical; and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Hadestown is performed with permission from Concord Theatricals.

Ocean City Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a deep connection with the Ocean City community and is committed to bringing quality theatre to the Jersey shore. Through the direction of the OCTC Board of Directors and the vision of Artistic Director, Michael Hartman; OCTC has grown into a leading arts organization.

OCTC operates as a Summer Stock/Regional Non-Equity Company, producing two to four professional musicals a year. OCTC has a wonderful relationship with the Ocean City POPS Orchestra which has been at the foundation of OCTC’s growth. Through this collaboration summer audiences have the opportunity to see live Broadway style shows in America’s Greatest Family Resort.

OCTC’s commitment to dance, music and theatre education for youth is constantly growing. OCTC staff members run theatre camps through Ocean City’s Department of Recreation. OCTC has established a Junior Company that features area youth in several fully staged productions.

In 2011, the Board of Directors and Staff officially restructured the Company to adopt the name Greater Ocean City Theatre Company. This re-branding allows more room for growth and support of the Company’s vision of bringing quality performing arts programming  throughout the Delaware Valley.