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Jeff Daniels to Reunite with Aaron Sorkin for Broadway’s 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' With Celia Keenan-Bolger, Gideon Glick, and More
The Scott Rudin and Lincoln Center Theater production will begin performances in November.
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Will Pullen, and Gideon Glick
The Newsroom Emmy winner Jeff Daniels will reunite with Aaron Sorkin as he headlines the writer’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The Bartlett Sher-helmed production, a collaboration between producer Scott Rudin and Lincoln Center Theater, will begin performances November 1 at a theatre to be announced. Opening night is set for December 13.
Daniels, who takes on the role of Atticus Finch, returns to Broadway after a Tony-nominated turn in 2016’s Blackbird. Joining him are fellow Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Glass Menagerie, Peter and the Starcatcher) as Scout, Will Pullen (Sweat) as Jem, and Gideon Glick (Significant Other, Spring Awakening) as Dill. The casting of the three—each notably older than their respective characters—indicates Sorkin’s previously reported intentions to present the drama as a memory play.
Click here for the full Playbill.com article published by Ryan McPhee on February 15, 2018.