Azusa Pacific College will be the first West Coast venue to put on a production of Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
In a script-worthy twist, Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” will receive its West Coast premiere at Azusa Pacific College, a private Christian college in Azusa.
However, Jill Brennan-Lincoln, chairwoman of the theater arts department at Azusa Pacific, said she received a letter from attorneys for producer Scott Rudin that cited a contractual stipulation preventing theater companies from performing Sergel’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” while Rudin’s production of the Sorkin version remained on Broadway. The letter’s existenceSoon thereafter, as negative press threatened to tarnish the Broadway production’s success, Rudin offered a compromise.
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