Jeff Daniels will star in “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Broadway. (Brigitte Lacombe)NEW YORK — Harper Lee is traveling to Broadway, and Aaron Sorkin is providing the vehicle. The late author’s seminal American novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is being adapted by Sorkin for a production to be directed next season by Bartlett Sher (“Oslo”) and will feature Jeff Daniels — the star of Sorkin’s HBO Series, “The Newsroom” — as lawyer Atticus Finch. (Sorkin’s version is being billed as a “new play, based on” Lee’s novel.) “We never talked about anybody but Jeff, from the very first conversation Aaron and I ever had about doing this together,” the producer added.

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2018 20:36 UTC