A WRINKLE IN TIME to be adapted for the musical stage

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It has been announced that Madeleine L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time will be adapted into a musical.

The production will feature music and lyrics by Obie Award winner Heather Christian, a book by Lauren Yee, and direction by two-time Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans.

Christian, Evans and Yee said: “A Wrinkle in Time is a wildly imaginative and deeply emotional story of a young woman searching for her father and discovering that her capacity to love and be connected to the people around her is her superpower. So much of the book feels gloriously impossible to stage — tessering through time and space, the chilling of world Camazotz and the indescribable ways of communicating on other planets in the universe — which is exactly why we’re thrilled to adapt this story into a musical. We’re so inspired by this iconic book and can't wait to invite audiences to gather in a theater to experience this moving, bold story told with all the electric magic of live performance.”

A Wrinkle in Time, which has sold over ten million copies and celebrates its 60th birthday this year, follows Meg Murry who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother and friend to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet, and threaten our own.

Additional creative team members and further information will be announced in 2023.