Live from Mount Olympus Season 7: The story of “Apollo & Artemis” Premieres in May 2026
Get ready to sing with the gods! Live from Mount Olympus returns May 6 with its first-ever musical and final season.
Apollo, the god of music—voiced by Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood—has just released his newest single, “Dragon Slayer.” Now, he joins Hermes (Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner André De Shields) on the GodsPod podcast to reveal the thrilling myth that inspired the song.
Over the course of the season, Apollo and Hermes spin marvelous tales of fearsome dragons and musical satyrs, friendly giants and greedy kings. Steadfast at Apollo’s side is his twin sister Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt, and all wild things. Artemis tempers Apollo’s gutsy bravado with strategic, level-headed leadership—always game to save her brother from one of his all-too-frequent missteps. Back to back and bows up, the divine twin godlings grow together into their Olympian identities. But when Apollo’s jealousy leads him to commit a terrible act of cruelty against his sister, he must seek Artemis’s forgiveness—or risk the destruction of all of Olympus.
“Live from Mount Olympus” is a dramatic, audio-rich adventure designed for tweens and listeners of all ages, featuring all-new songs performed by Broadway’s leading talent. A production of the Onassis Foundation, “Live from Mount Olympus” is created and produced by Peabody Award-winning showrunner Julie Burstein and co-produced by the Brooklyn-based theater ensemble The TEAM. The series is directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin, alongside Josiah Davis, Joan Sergay, and Keenan Tyler Oliphant. Karen Brooks Hopkins is executive producer. Magda Giannikou is the composer of LFMO GodsPod musical.
From the dramatic birth of the divine twins to the myths of King Minos’s golden touch and the Judgment of Paris, “Live from Mount Olympus: Apollo & Artemis” brings to life some of Greek mythology’s most iconic stories. With dynamic storytelling, immersive sound design, and unforgettable songs, this season is a festive and reflective celebration of the music, myths, and magic of Olympus—like you’ve never heard them before.
“Live from Mount Olympus” is distributed by PRX. Season 7 premieres on May 6th, 2026.
PRX is a nonprofit public media company specializing in audio journalism and storytelling. It serves independent producers and organizations by helping them connect with their most engaged and supportive audiences. One of the world’s leading podcast publishers, PRX works in partnership with TED, PBS, the Smithsonian Institution, Futuro Media, GBH, Religion of Sports, and more. PRX is also home to Radiotopia, known as one of the most creative and successful podcast networks. In addition, PRX distributes trusted and treasured public radio programming to hundreds of stations nationwide, including “The World,” “The Moth Radio Hour,” “This American Life,” “Snap Judgment,” “Reveal,” “The Takeaway,” and “Latino USA.” PRX programs have been recognized with the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the IDA Documentary Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.
Founded in 2004, the TEAM is a Brooklyn-based experimental theater collective spirited by some of the wildest and deepest artists working today. Once described by “The Guardian” as “theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams, and the American psyche,” the TEAM collaboratively creates new works about the experience of living in the United States today, to generate dialogue about the nation’s past, present, and future through production and touring. They believe that how they make is as important as what they make, and their producing practices strive to embody values of collective liberation.
The TEAM has created and toured 12 original works. Their work has been presented in New York at the Public Theater, PS122, Vineyard Theatre, the New Ohio Theatre, and The Bushwick Starr; nationally at ArtsEmerson, A.R.T., Walker Art Center, PlayMakers Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Tech, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and internationally at the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Barbican, Almeida Theatre, and Battersea Arts Centre in London; Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre; Culturgest in Lisbon; the Salzburg Festival; Galway Festival; Perth International Arts Festival; and Hong Kong Arts Festival. They are four-time winners of the Scotsman Fringe First Award, and have also received the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, the Herald Angel (2011), the Edinburgh Total Theatre Award (2008), and the Best Production Dublin Fringe Award (2007). They were nominated for a Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical (2012).
The TEAM is currently supporting six seedlings of new works in its Petri Projects lab, and is developing “Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside),” a new theatrical work that explores the possibility—and value—of intimacy between Black, POC, and white artists as they work to move through history together in the aftermath of slavery.
https://theteamplays.org/
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