Television credits include Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” (Emmy Award), “The Looming Tower” (Emmy nomination), and “Godless” (Emmy nomination).ĬELIA KEENAN-BOLGER ( Scout Finch). As Founder and Resident Playwright of Michigan’s Purple Rose Theatre Company, his many plays include Flint, Guest Artist (Runner-Up, American Theatre Critics Association Best New Play), Across the Way (Finalist, ATCA), and The Meaning of Almost Everything (ATCA nomination). Film: Terms of Endearment Something Wild The Purple Rose of Cairo Fly Away Home Dumb and Dumber Gettysburg The Hours Speed Pleasantville 101 Dalmatians Good Night, and Good Luck The Martian Steve Jobs The Squid and the Whale. Off-Broadway: many credits as a member of Circle Repertory Company including Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (Obie Award). Broadway: Blackbird (Tony Award nomination), God of Carnage (Tony nomination), Redwood Curtain, 5th Of July (Drama Desk Award). TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD will have scenic design by Miriam Buether, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Jennifer Tipton, sound design by Scott Lehrer, an original score by Adam Guettel, casting by Daniel Swee, and is produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, Eli Bush, and Lincoln Center Theater. The other indelible residents of Maycomb, Alabama will be brought to life on stage by Frederick Weller (as Bob Ewell), Gbenga Akinnagbe (playing Tom Robinson), Stark Sands (as prosecutor Horace Gilmer), Dakin Matthews (playing Judge Taylor), Erin Wilhelmi (as Mayella Ewell), and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (as Calpurnia). The cast of characters includes Atticus’s daughter Scout (Celia Keenan-Bolger), her brother Jem (Will Pullen), their visiting friend Dill (Gideon Glick), and their mysterious neighbor, the reclusive Arthur “Boo” Radley (Danny Wolohan). Set in Alabama in the 1930s, Harper Lee’s enduring story of racial injustice and childhood innocence centers on one of the most beloved and admired characters in American literature, the small-town lawyer Atticus Finch, to be played by Jeff Daniels. Jeff Daniels will head a cast of 24 which will also star Celia Keenan-Bolger, Will Pullen, Gideon Glick, Frederick Weller, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Stark Sands, Dakin Matthews, Erin Wilhelmi, Danny McCarthy, Neal Huff, Phyllis Somerville, Liv Rooth, Danny Wolohan, Baize Buzan, Thomas Michael Hammond, Ted Koch, David Manis, Aubie Merrylees, Doron JéPaul Mitchell, Jeff Still, Shona Tucker, Rebecca Watson, and LaTanya Richardson Jackson. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD will begin previews on Thursday, November 1 and open on Thursday, December 13 at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44 Street). The creative team also includes set designer Miriam Buether ( Three Tall Women, The Jungle) and sound designer Scott Lehrer ( Carousel, The King and I).Ī timeless American classic which continues to inspire audiences around the world, To Kill a Mockingbird at the Shubert Theatre is booking now.Casting is complete for the Broadway production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Aaron Sorkin’s new play, directed by Bartlett Sher, and based on Harper Lee’s classic novel. Bartlett Sher directs, building on an impressive CV which includes the Tony Award-winning South Pacific. His credits include A Few Good Men on Broadway, although he is best known to a wider audience for work on films including The Social Network and Steve Jobs. To Kill a Mockingbird is adapted for the stage by Academy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin. He is joined by a cast including Celia Keenan-Bolger as Scout Finch, a role for which she won a Tony Award, Nick Robinson as Jem Finch and Kyle Scatliffe as Tom Robinson. Amongst racism and bigotry in the American South, To Kill a Mockingbird challenges audiences through a prescient tale of the loss of innocence, with some of literature’s greatest characters at its heart. Inspired by Lee’s own Alabama upbringing, To Kill a Mockingbird is told through the eyes of Scout Finch, a young girl whose father, lawyer Atticus Finch, has been tasked with defending a black man against rape accusations. With a script by Academy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin, To Kill a Mockingbird’s enduring tale of racism, justice and compassion plays at the Shubert Theatre in New York. Having inspired and moved generations of readers since 1960, Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird receives a new adaptation on Broadway.
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