New adaptation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' heads to Broadway
Producer Scott Rudin said Wednesday the play will land during the 2017-2018 season under the direction of Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, who is represented on Broadway now with the brilliant revivals of "The King and I" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
The book was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie starring Gregory Peck as Atticus and has become standard reading in schools and other reading programs, with worldwide sales topping 40 million copies.
Critics and readers were startled to find the heroic Atticus of "Mockingbird" disparaging blacks and condemning the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw segregation in public schools.