About the Author

David Yazbek is an American writer, composer and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010) and The Band's Visit (2017).

Itamar Moses is an American playwright, author, and television writer. His plays include Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets and Completeness. He won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for The Band's Visit.

Reviews

'It's time to fall in love again… One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by… The Band’s Visit is a Broadway rarity seldom found these days outside of the canon of Stephen Sondheim… Miraculous'
*New York Times*

'Quietly ravishing… It is unlike any musical I've seen - understated, with a dry wit and a yearning soul'
*Vogue*

'Book writer Itamar Moses and composer/lyricist David Yazbek have created a play of deep integrity - funny, generous, sweet without sentimentality, poignant without melodrama, and emotionally expansive… The Band’s Visit is quietly modeling real theatrical and musical courage… It gave me more hope for what Broadway might welcome, might foster, might become than any musical in a long time. It's a deceptively radical jasmine wind blowing through a stuffy room, bringing with it the possibility of change'
*New York Magazine*

'A small show with a big heart... a wondrous encounter of cultures and personality... a snapshot of open-hearted hospitality and boundless joie de vivre... Each character is perfectly crafted... Even the smaller storylines leave an enormous mark... a well-rounded, stereotype-free, wholesome piece of theatre... It's simply sublime, mandatory viewing for a lesson on empathy, kindness, and the power of music'
*Broadway World*

'Entrancing... Every conversation prises a lid off complex emotion, probes at tender places... thrilling'
*Guardian*

'A magical, bijou musical to send the soul soaring... has a concentrated Chekhovian depth and melancholy... Droll social comedy combines with exquisite everyday misery... immaculately observed... quiet and simple, yes, but it's precisely that alchemy that makes it special'
*Telegraph*

'Irresistible... witty and delightfully odd... utterly charming'
*Evening Standard*

'Bittersweet and idiosyncratic... a beautiful, haunting work about loss, loneliness and the desire for human warmth'
*Time Out*

'Exquisite... sumptuous vignettes of small-town love, loss and longing... the most powerful reminder possible that the greatest art is always rooted in the smallest and most specific details'
*iNews*