Aaron Sorkin’s next project? To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee’s novel is heading to Broadway, with Jeff Daniels as lawyer Atticus Finch. The novel is being adapted by Sorkin for a production to be directed next season by Bartlett Sher, and will be co-produced by Scott Rudin and Lincoln Center Theater. It will hit theaters Nov. 1 at a theater that has not yet been announced. It is bound to be one of the cornerstone events of the 2018-19 Broadway season, and the cast includes Celia Keenan-Bolger (who’ll portray Scout); Stephen McKinley Henderson, Gideon Glick, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Frederick Weller, Will Pullen, Stark Sands, Dakin Matthews, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Phyllis Somerville and Liv Rooth. According to The Washington Post, the show’s original music will be composed by Adam Guettel, and costumes will be designed by Ann Roth. Jennifer Tipton will do the lighting and Miriam Buether is in charge of the set. Written in 1960, the novel is narrated by Scout and recounts a case that Atticus, a small-town Alabama lawyer takes on, defending a black man accused of rape. The novel has been a staple in English class curriculums for years, but has also been banned by school boards because of Lee’s frank discussions of race and sexuality.
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