ARTS&LIFE
THEATER
T
o Kill a Mockingbird holds the record
as the highest-grossing American
play in Broadway history. Harper
Lee’s beloved work won the 1961 Pulitzer
Prize in fiction and was voted “America’s
favorite novel.”
Academy Award, Emmy and Golden
Globe-winner Aaron Sorkin, prolific screen-
writer and playwright of the television
series Sports Night, The West Wing and
The Newsroom has also had great success
on Broadway with A Few Good Men, the
revival of Camelot and adapting To Kill a
Mockingbird.
Sorkin’s play To Kill a Mockingbird, based
on Harper Lee’s classic novel comes to
Detroit’s Fisher Theatre March 5-17. Emmy
Award-winner Richard Thomas, best known
for his portrayal of John-Boy on The Waltons,
and also for The Humans and Twelve Angry
Men national tours, stars as small-town
lawyer Atticus Finch during a time of racial
injustice in Alabama in 1934.
“With his theatrical adaptation, Aaron
Sorkin looks at the character of Atticus Finch
through a different lens. Aaron has stepped
aside and framed the entire play along the
notion of the children [Scout, Jem and Dill]
who are now all grown and retelling the story
of this moment in their lives,” says NETworks
Presentations CEO Orin Wolf.
“This story is really anchored in the
Aaron Sorkin’s play To Kill A Mockingbird
comes to the Fisher Theatre March 5-17.
JULIE SMITH YOLLES CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Atticus Finch
Through a
Dif
erent Lens
Orin Wolf