If/Then's Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey Adapting The Visitor for Broadway

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning team Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey are adapting acclaimed 2007 movie The Visitor for the stage. The Broadway-bound musical will have a private industry reading in December.

The Visitor follows Walter, a lost soul who gets a new lease on life with the arrival of Terek, an undocumented immigrant who challenges Walter's capacity for acceptance, change, and even intimacy in the wake of his wife's passing. In it, Walter connects with Terek over a shared appreciation of music, a bond that slowly builds into a soul-stirring, unexpected friendship. Set in a culturally divided post-9/11 New York City, The Visitor suggests that the ties that bind us—music, passion, love—are far more powerful tools for healing than the things that tear us apart.

Thomas McCarthy's film The Visitor won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and received an Oscar nod for its leading actor Richard Jenkins.

Kitt and Yorkey won a Pulitzer and a Tony for their work on Next to Normal. They are currently represented on Broadway by If/Then. Last year they were reported to be working on a stage adaptation of Magic Mike.