Judith Newmark wrote in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch about our 2001 production, “Artistically, it was one of the best productions New Line ever staged, and everybody seemed to know it.” We promise an even wilder adventure this time.

Full of great songs like "Aquarius," "Let the Sun Shine In," "Easy to Be Hard," "Good Morning, Starshine," and so many more, HAIR remains one of the most important works in the history of the American theatre, and yet so many people know so little about it. HAIR is so much more than its drugs and rock music and its famous nude scene. Without it there would have been no Rent or A Chorus Line, no Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago or Cats. HAIR changed everything. Drawing from the anti-war movement, the hippie culture, the experimental theatre movement, the drug culture, rock and roll, the Beat poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Eastern philosophies, and so much more, HAIR emerged in 1967 as one of the towering achievements of the twentieth century, a work of theatre so fully realized, so culturally significant, so shockingly real and honest -- and so iconically American -- that still today it retains its power to move and shock audiences, and to change forever the lives of those who work on it.  Click here to play "Aquarius"

Time Magazine published an article in 1967 about the hippie subculture, and wrote, "The hippies have popularized a new word, psychedelic, which the Random House Dictionary of English Language defines as: 'Of or noting a mental state of great calm, intensely pleasureful perception of the senses, esthetic entrancement and creative impetus; of or noting any of the group of drugs producing this effect.' With those drugs has come the psychedelic philosophy, an impassioned belief in the self-revealing, mind-expanding powers of potent weeds and seeds and chemical compounds known to man since prehistory but wholly alien to the rationale of Western society. Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the 'trip' a magic-carpet escape from reality in which perceptions are heightened, senses distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with visions of Ideological verity."