Scott Rudin Allows Theaters to Stage the Aaron Sorkin-Penned To Kill a Mockingbird Following Legal Disputes

After multiple theater companies around the world To Kill a Mockingbird Edited by Aaron Sorkin for a new Broadway adaptation from Aaron Sorkin, the producer has suggested that Harper Lee's story to their internships.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rudin will grant the stage rights of the Sorkin-penned version to certain amateur theaters around the country in a rare move that will allow them to present a work currently on Broadway in their own communities.

This decision arrived after Rudin 's legal team sentenced to the stage of the stage. Christopher Sergel' s earlier stage adaptation of the story, quoting Lee and Dramatic Publishing Company (which licenses the Sergel play ) that prohibits productions within 25 miles of large cities while major production plays New York gold tours. A U.K. tour of the Sergel play was also recently canceled following similar claims.

The offer of the Sorkin adaptation will only be extended to their productions of the Sergel-penned version. Among those are the Grand Theater in Utah, Massachusetts, Mumford Street Players and Curtain Call Theater, the Kavinoky Theater in upstate New York, and the Ohio's Dayton Playhouse.

"We have been hard at work creating what I hope may be a solution for those theater companies that have been affected by this inconvenience. have the right to do so, "said Rudin in a statement.

He added, "I think it is a good thing, that it is, honestly, not the fault of the people, that it is the fault of the people of the world. still can do it, it's a good solution, "said Rudin. "Everything that they licensed, we'll stand behind with bears."

The Sorkin-penned adaptation, directed by Bartlett Sher and starring Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger, opened at Broadway Shubert Theater December 13 last year.

pictures: To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway