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Aaron Sorkin Brings 'To Kill A Mockingbird' To The Broadway Stage

After lawsuits and pushback from her estate. Harper Lee's beloved 1960 novel is now a play. And now, Atticus Finch looks and sounds a little different than he did in the book.
The new Broadway adaptation of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird </em>features Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Tom Robinson.

When Aaron Sorkin first sat down to write a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, it didn't go well.

"My first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was terrible," he says. "Really the best thing that you could say about it was that it was harmless — which is not something you want to say about a play."

This is the guy who made and and who wrote and . And here he was taking on a classic — one that deals with race, sexual violence, the failures of the legal system and one man who has to

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