Mitski Is Writing the Score for a 'Queen's Gambit' Musical

Mitski has shared that she's been enlisted to pen the music for an upcoming Queen's Gambit theater adaptation. The singer-songwriter will be writing the score for a musical based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel, which follows the journey of young chess prodigy Beth Harmon during the Cold War era.The novel was adapted into a hit Netflix miniseries in 2020, starring Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Harmon, an orphan, who quickly rises through the ranks of the male-dominated scene of competitive chess. and th...