The Broadway adaptation by Sorkin, creator of TV’s “The West Wing” and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Social Network,” stars Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, the Alabama lawyer who defends a black man from a false charge of raping a white woman.Ī spokesman for the American Association of Community Theatre said Thursday the organization would not weigh in on the dispute. “I feel terrible for our artists, onstage and backstage, who poured their hearts into making something beautiful and meaningful, only to have it ended so suddenly,” said Matt Lindsay, chair of the Dayton Playhouse’s board of directors. ' From Massachusetts to Utah, small community theater productions of To Kill a Mockingbird are being shut down under threat of a lawsuit by the producer of the new Broadway production. In Ohio, the Dayton Playhouse, an active community theater since 1959, had to abruptly cancel its “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The cast and crew have been hard at work on the production for weeks. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ’s stage adaptation of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird has cancelled its return to Broadway, as reported by media sources. “Due to the substantial financial impact defending such an action would have on our small theatre group, we have no choice but to comply and, thus, cancel our upcoming production of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Not doing so would put our theatre at great risk,” the theater said in a statement. By Greg Evans Decem8:41am Playwright Keenan Scott II (center) in Thoughts of a Colored Man Tricia Baron Refresh for updates Broadway ’s Waitress and David Byrne’s American Utopia. The all-volunteer Curtain Call Theatre in Braintree, Massachusetts, said it received a letter threatening damages of up to $150,000, a staggering amount for a venue where tickets for plays are $20 and $25 for musicals. “Prohibiting others to perform this piece goes against everything the novel is about in the first place.” 1, 2022 10:25 AM PT The first thing to know about the 2018 Broadway play To Kill a Mockingbird, now running through Sunday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, is that it’s no. “If a theatre was consciously stealing creative license, that would be one thing.
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