Music by Tom Kitt Lyrics by Brian Yorkey Book by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Brian Yorkey
With heart, humor and lush new songs, Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning team Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey and Kwame Kwei-Armah have created a soul-stirring new musical based on the acclaimed independent film The Visitor by Thomas McCarthy.
Widowed and living alone, Walter is a college professor whose life has lost a sense of purpose. When Tarek, a vivacious drummer, and Zainab, an iron-willed jewelry maker, enter his life in the most unexpected circumstances, Walter is swept up into their struggle to stay in America – a country that has become their home but seeks to cast them out.
The Visitor is an unforgettable new musical about friends and lovers caught between two worlds.
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Tom Kitt is a two-time Tony, two-time Emmy, two-time Grammy and Pulitzer Prize Award winner. As a musical theatre composer, he has written the music for six Broadway shows: Next to Normal (Tony Award, Olivier nomination), If/Then (Tony nomination), Almost Famous (Tony nominat ...
Kwame Kwei-Armah became Artistic Director of the Young Vic Theatre in 2018. He was Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage (2011-18) and Artistic Director of the Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Senegal (2010), where he wrote and directed the opening ceremony at Sengho ...