Credit: Steve Keros Thom Yorke is headed to Broadway. The Radiohead frontman will compose original music for the play Old Times, written by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter.
"The music Thom has written for Old Times gives an immediacy and a 'now-ness’ to the show," says director Douglas Hodge in a statement. "The play itself is about memory and love -- Thom's music works backwards and forwards and plays with time and repetition in the same way Pinter does. In true Thom Yorke-style, the music is epic, heartbreaking, irresistible and complex."
"It's been a pleasure working with Doug on my first stage production," Yorke adds. "I've enjoyed exploring through music the script's themes of love and memory as well as Pinter's rhythms, twists and turns."
Old Times, starring Clive Owen, will begin preview performances September 17. The play will officially run from October 6 through November 29 at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City. Visit RoundaboutTheatre.com for all ticket info.
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