Hadestown's Fates Will Reunite on Broadway for 11 Weeks

Jewelle Blackman is returning to co-star with Jessie Shelton and Kay Trinidad in the Tony-winning musical.

April 06, 2026 By Andrew Gans

Jewelle Blackman, Kay Trinidad, and Jessie Shelton in *Hadestown* (Matthew Murphy)

Original Hadestown Broadway cast member Jewelle Blackman will return to the Tony-winning musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre beginning April 28.

Blackman will join fellow original cast members Jessie Shelton and Kay Trinidad as the Fates for 11 weeks before the three take their final bow July 19. (The three original Broadway fates were Blackman, Trinidad, and Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer.) Their successors will be announced at a later date.

Blackman joined Hadestown in 2017 during its developmental run in Edmonton and made her Broadway debut in 2019 as one of the original Fates, later stepping into the role of Persephone in 2022. Shelton, who first portrayed a Fate in the initial 2016 New York Theatre Workshop production, made her Broadway debut as a swing and understudy in the original Broadway company before rejoining the company as a Fate in 2021. Trinidad, one of the show’s longest-tenured cast members, has portrayed a Fate since the production’s Broadway opening in 2019.

The current Broadway company also features Joshua Colley as Orpheus, Gary Dourdan as Hades, J. Harrison Ghee as Hermes, Gaby Moreno as Persephone, and Jordan Tyson as Eurydice. The chorus of Workers is played by Emily Afton, Malcolm Armwood, Jeffrey Cornelius, Sydney Parra, and Alex Puette. The cast also includes swings Brandon Cameron, KC Dela Cruz, Tara Jackson, and Max Kumangai.

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Hadestown is in its third year in the West End (the musical returned to London six years after its 2018 engagement at the National Theatre). The record-breaking North American tour completed its coast-to-coast three-year run in 2024, and productions have opened across the globe in Sydney, Melbourne, and Amsterdam last year. A new staging will open in Brazil this summer.

Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s folk- and jazz-infused musical layers the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with that of Hades and Persephone, intertwining the actions—and consequences—of gods and mortals. Hadestown originally began as a theatrical concert performed by Mitchell.

The creative team features Tony-winning set designer Rachel Hauck, Tony-nominated costume designer Michael Krass, Tony-winning lighting designer Bradley King, Tony-winning sound designers Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz, choreographer David Neumann, and dramaturg Ken Cerniglia. Musical supervision and vocal arrangements are by Liam Robinson, with arrangements and orchestrations by Tony winners Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose.

The show, featuring a book and score by Mitchell, won eight 2019 Tony Awards: Best Director of a Musical (Rachel Chavkin), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (André De Shields), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Bradley King), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Rachel Hauck), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Jessica Paz and Nevin Steinberg), Best Orchestrations (Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose), Best Original Score (Mitchell), and Best Musical.