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Aaron Sorkin Adaptation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Sets 2018 Broadway Arrival

Tony winner Bartlett Sher will direct Oscar-winner Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.

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Aaron Sorkin (Courtesy of Master Class)

A new world-premiere stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird will arrive on Broadway December 13, 2018. The Broadway dates were revealed in a print ad from the September 10 edition of The New York Times.

Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The West Wing) has written the new stage adaptation of Lee’s semi-autobiographical novel about racial injustice in a small Alabama town in the mid 1930s.

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (Golden Boy, The King and I, South Pacific) will direct the Broadway premiere, which is produced by Scott Rudin.

Click here for the full Playbill.com article published by Adam Hetrick on September 6, 2017.