PENELOPE waited twenty years for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Now she's ready to share her side of the story — but she's going to need a drink first.
Starring Broadway's Grace McLean, this contemporary chamber musical brings one of history's greatest epics to life through a Richard Rodgers Award-winning folk-pop score. Sharp, funny, and unexpectedly moving — this is Penelope's Odyssey.
The way this show's music wraps itself around the book and lyrics feels so thoroughly intimate it's nigh on sexual.
— The Washington Post
A delicate, contemporary, unconventional musical.
— The New York Times
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026
Starring
Grace McLean
"Phenomenal" — The New York Times
Music, Lyrics & Arrangements
Alex Bechtel
Richard Rodgers Award–winning folk-pop score
Book
Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean & Eva Steinmetz
Directed by
Eva Steinmetz
A wonderfully ingratiating new musical. A kind of escape, travel without moving, storytelling in the time-stealing mode of Scheherazade. I left thinking I would gladly have listened for another day.
— The Washington Post
Penelope's cleverness, patience, and resilience is on full display in this highly entertaining musical.
— TheaterMania
A brilliant, emotionally-riveting and thought-provoking one-woman musical.
— Lehigh Valley Press