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Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 11m plus ensemble
By Aaron SorkinFrom the novel by Harper Lee
Aaron Sorkin’s celebrated adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel, a smash hit on Broadway, is a taut courtroom drama bristling with tension.
Image: 2018 Broadway Production (Julieta Cervantes)
Nominee: Nine 2019 Tony AwardsNominee: 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway PlayNominee: Five 2023 Olivier Awards, including Best Play
Set in Alabama in 1934, Harper Lee’s enduring story of racial injustice and childhood innocence centers on one of the most venerated characters in American literature, small-town lawyer Atticus Finch. He encourages kindness and empathy in his children, Scout and Jem, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it.
Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation, with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic.
This dramatic adaptation by Aaron Sorkin of To Kill a Mockingbird is the adaptation that appeared on Broadway, in related national tours, and the West End of London and is not affiliated in any way with earlier play adaptations of Harper Lee’s novel.
To Kill a Mockingbird premiered on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on 13 December 2018. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the production featured Jeff Daniels, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Celia Keenan-Bolger. The play made its West End premiere at the Gielgud Theatre on 31 March 2022. Directed by Sher, the London production featured Rafe Spall, Jude Owusu and Gwyneth Keyworth.
ATTICUS FINCHTOM ROBINSONSCOUT FINCHJEM FINCHDILL HARRISLINK DEASCALPURNIAJUDGE TAYLORSHERIFF HECK TATEMISS STEPHANIEDILL’S MOTHERHORACE GILMERMRS. HENRY DUBOSEBOB EWELLMAYELLA EWELLBOO RADLEYMR. CUNNINGHAMBAILIFFMR. ROSCOEDR. REYNOLDS
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Maycomb, Alabama. 1934.
“A transfixing act of theatrical storytelling.”– The Hollywood Reporter
“Engrossing, provocative… one of the best plays in town.” – AM New York
“Elegiac and effective… beautiful.” – The New York Times
“Thoroughly engaging… earnest in tone and full of plainspoken poetics.” – Broadway World
“Crackerjack entertainment… Sorkin’s reworking of Lee’s plot frequently lets us cast a fresh eye on a familiar story we remember well from school… getting us to rethink an American classic without any fussiness or archness.” – The Wrap
“Deeply moving… [Sorkin] lets the contemporary parallels emerge naturally, without hitting us over the head, in a transfixing act of theatrical storytelling… the bridge to our own era is implicit. This is not starchy masterpiece theatre, it’s very much alive and emotionally impactful.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Superbly entertaining… Sorkin has structured the play around the courtroom drama, which gives the action force and drive… the play insists, often vigorously, in the inherent soundness of the democratic process and the American experiment.” – The Guardian
“Genuinely radical and thoroughly gripping… Sorkin has written a Mockingbird that fits this riven American moment.” – Chicago Tribune
National Tour of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird – Montage
To Kill a Mockingbird’s Richard Thomas on Atticus Finch
How Aaron Sorkin reworked To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway – PBS NewsHour
Citizens of To Kill a Mockingbird: Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch
Aaron Sorkin made his Broadway debut with A Few Good Men, which earned him the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Playwright. His other plays are The Farnsworth Invention and the stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which was nominated for nine Tony Awards ...
Harper Lee (1926-2016) was born in Monroeville, Alabama. One of America’s most celebrated and influential writers, she is the author of the acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, along with Go Set a Watchman and the story/essay collection The Land of Sweet Forever, published ...
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