Aaron Sorkin鈥檚 stage adaptation of Harper Lee鈥檚 To Kill a Mockingbird will embark on its first tour of the U.K. and Ireland in the fall.
The acclaimed production, based on Lee's novel about racial injustice and childhood
innocence, will open at the Leeds Playhouse September 8鈥揙ctober 4. The courtroom drama will subsequently play dates in Nottingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bath, Cardiff,
Salford, Sheffield, Dublin, Belfast, Plymouth, Canterbury, Southampton,
Birmingham, Newcastle, Norwich, Liverpool, and Milton Keynes, with
further cities to be announced.
Casting and the complete creative team will be announced at a later date.
Directed by Bartlett Sher, Sorkin's stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird premiered in December 2018 at Broadway鈥檚 Shubert Theatre. On February 26, 2020鈥攁 few weeks before the Broadway shutdown鈥攖he Broadway cast gave a history-making free performance at Madison Square Garden in front of 18,000 New York City school children. Mockingbird, which resumed its Broadway run in October 2021, played its final performance at the Shubert January 16, 2022. The acclaimed production previously announced it would not reopen on Broadway.
Set in Alabama in 1934, Lee鈥檚 enduring story of racial
injustice and childhood innocence centers on small-town lawyer Atticus
Finch. The cast of characters includes Atticus鈥� daughter Scout, her
brother Jem, their housekeeper and caretaker, Calpurnia, their visiting
friend Dill, and a mysterious neighbor, the reclusive Arthur 鈥淏oo鈥�
Radley.
To Kill a Mockingbird is presented by Jonathan Church Theatre Productions.
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