Radiohead's Thom Yorke Will Compose Music for Roundabout's OLD TIMES

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) just announced that Thom Yorke, singer and principal songwriter for the three-time Grammy Award-winning alternative rock band, Radiohead, will compose original music for Harold Pinter's Old Times, directed by Douglas Hodge, and starring Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly as part of Roundabout's 50th anniversary season.

Old Times director Douglas Hodge notes: "The music Thom has written for Old Times gives an immediacy and a 'now?ness' to the show. 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. I'm hopeful this collaboration will result in a new kind of theatergoer coming to our show."

"It's been a pleasure working with Doug on my first stage production," adds Thom Yorke. "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 will begin preview performances on Thursday, September 17, 2015, and open officially on Tuesday, October 6, 2015. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, November 29, 2015, on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly star in Old Times, the unsettling drama of desire and blurred realities by Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. Owen is Deeley, a man quite looking forward to meeting Anna (Best), his wife Kate's (Reilly) friend from long ago. But as the night goes on, Anna's visit quickly shifts from an ordinary sharing of memories to a quiet battle for power. Douglas Hodge, a frequent performer and director of Pinter's works, directs the haunting and passionate revival.

Roundabout has a longstanding relationship with Harold Pinter, having produced ten productions of his work since 1971, including: The Caretaker starring Patrick Stewart, Kyle MacLachlan and Aidan Gillen (2003); Betrayal starring Juliette Binoche, Liev Schreiber and John Slattery (2000), which received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play; the American premiere of Ashes to Ashes starring Lindsay Duncan and David Strathairn (1999); the American premiere of Moonlight starring Jason Robards and Blythe Danner (1995); No Man's Land starring Christopher Plummer and Jason Robards (1994); The Homecoming starring Roy Dotrice and Lindsay Crouse (1991); Old Times starring Jane Alexander, Anthony Hopkins and Marsha Mason (1984); The Caretaker (1982 and 1973); and The Lover (1972).

The design team includes Christine Jones (sets), Constance Hoffman (costumes), Japhy Weideman (lighting), Clive Goodwin (sound) and Thom Yorke (music).