To Kill a Mockingbird
Directed by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird opened to critical acclaim on December 13, 2018 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre. The production is the most successful American Play of all time.
Published in 1960, Harper Lee’s debut novel To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate and astonishing success. It won the Pulitzer Prize and quickly became a global phenomenon, with more than 50 million copies in print to date. Considered one of the great classics of modern American literature, the novel has never been out of print since its original publication 57 years ago.
In a Library of Congress survey on books that have most affected people’s lives, To Kill a Mockingbird was second only to the Bible. In 1999, American librarians named it the “Best Novel of the Twentieth Century.”
A New Play by
Aaron Sorkin
Based on the Novel by
Harper Lee
Directed by
Bartlett Sher
Original Music by
Adam Guettel
Scenic Design
Miriam Buether
Costume Design
Ann Roth
Lighting Design
Jennifer Tipton
Sound Design
Scott Lehrer
Hair and Wig Design
Campbell Young Associates
Music Director
Kimberly Grigsby
“Majestic and incandescent, this ‘Mockingbird’ is filled with breath and nuance and soul. This is a phenomenon.”
— Sara Holdren, New York Magazine
“Five stars. All rise for the miracle that is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ on Broadway. A landmark production of an American classic.”
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“A game-changing ‘Mockingbird’. Aaron Sorkin has written a genuinely radical new play that fits this riven American moment. This living, breathing, ‘Mockingbird’ pulses with relevance.”
— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
Photos: Julieta Cervantes
CBS “60 Minutes”
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New York Magazine
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