The Virginia Samford Theatre's take on To Kill a Mockingbird, which I caught on its opening night, is something rare: a staging that manages to feel both reverent and alive. It dispenses with the ...
Based on Harper Lee’s 1960 novel, this production of To Kill A Mockingbird is written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Barlett Sher. Tom Robinson (Aaron Shosanya) is a black man from the Deep South who ...
Sorkin has been candid in admitting he has not swaddled Lee’s novel in bubble wrap, repurposing it for the age of Trumpian politics and Black Lives Matter. (His characters deploy the n-word throughout ...
“A mob is a place where people go to take a break from their conscience,” Atticus Finch, one of literature’s most celebrated characters, exclaims in To Kill a Mockingbird.