Discount Broadway Tickets For To Kill a Mockingbird - This Show Is Now Shelved

To Kill a Mockingbird Summary

  • Show Status: Shelved
  • Genre: Play
  • To Kill a Mockingbird is 2 hours and 35 minutes long, and does not have an intermission.
  • 8 Shows per week
  • Show Closes: Open ended

Based on Harper Lee's novel, the TKAM story focuses on a young girl and her lawyer father who is appointed to defend a black man during the Great Depression.

What's To Kill a Mockingbird Like?

To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) was inspired by Harper Lee's childhood in Alabama.

Her father was a lawyer who represented two black men accused of murder and when she was ten years old a white women accused a black man of raping her in a nearby town. As in the play, the trial was controversial and unjust. The play explores issues of racial injustice, historical prejudice and class. As Scout watches the trial and learns of the racial intolerance deeply rooted in the South at this time, the audience watches Scout gradually lose her innocence.

This story is beloved not only for its themes, but its characters. Atticus is an impartial model for lawyers and has served as a moral compass for generations. Scout resonates with audiences for her universal childhood innocence and curiosity.

Is To Kill a Mockingbird Good for Kids?

The show is most appropriate for those aged 12 and older. Children under the age of 4 will not be permitted in the theatre.

To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway Background

Broadway Show Moves to a New Theatre June 2022

After playing at the Shubert Theatre since November 1, 2018, the show ends its run there on Sunday January 16, 2022. The show moves to the Belasco Theatre with an opening date of this June 1. 2022.

Relocating to the Belasco Theatre has brought the production into a smaller venue that will allow it to survive for a longer time and with an more intimate setting for audiences. Contributing factors to this move included the 21/22 Winter sales slump and the fact that Greg Kinnear was bringing in far smaller audiences compared to previous actors in the lead role. The prior actors included Jeff Daniels at the start in 2018, Ed Harris, then Jeff Daniels again and finally Greg Kinnear in 2022

To Kill a Mockingbird Show Background

Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, "The West Wing") adapts Harper Lee's iconic novel for the Broadway stage for the first time.

There have been many stage adaptations of Mockingbird in the past, but none made it as far as Broadway. As Harper's debut novel, To Kill a Mockingbird received unprecedented acclaim when it was released in 1960. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize and the American classic has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

Jeff Daniels who starred in Sorkin's "The Newsroom" plays Atticus Finch. This production is directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The King and I). Despite a lawsuit from Ms. Lee's estate over the portrayal of a less-than-admirable Atticus Finch in the stage adaption, the show proceeded as scheduled.

To Kill a Mockingbird Book

To Kill a Mockingbird was found to be the second most influential book in people's lives by the Library of Congress, second only to the Bible. The Academy Award winning film of the same name was released in 1962 and went on to significant critical acclaim, despite a lack of awards. The movie has subsequently been referred to as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Theatre Information

Belasco Theatre

111 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10019
Seats: 813
Entrance: 44th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenues
Theatre Information

Belasco Theatre Seating Chart

To Kill a Mockingbird Marquee

To Kill a Mockingbird Marquee

Cast Members

Atticus Finch
Greg Kinnear
Scout Finch
Baize Buzan
Tom Robinson
Kyle Scatliffe
Jem Finch
Nick Robinson
Dill Finch
Taylor Trensch
Bob Ewell
Neal Huff
Horace Gilmer
Manoel Feliciano
Judge Taylor
M Emmet Walsh
Mayella Ewell
Eliza Scanlen
Calpurnia
Portia
Arthur "Boo" Radley
Russell Harvard
Sheriff Heck Tate
Danny McCarthy
Link Deas
Neal Huff
Mrs Henry Dubose
Phyllis Somerville
Mr Cunningham
Ted Koch
Miss Stephanie/Dill's Mother
Liv Rooth
Bailiff
Thomas Michael Hammond
Mr Roscoe/Dr Reynolds
Jeff Still

Past Cast Members

Atticus Finch
Jeff Daniels
Atticus Finch
Ed Harris
Scout Finch
Nina Grollman
Scout Finch
Celia Keenan-Bolger
Calpurnia
LisaGay Hamilton
Calpurnia
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Mr Cunningham/Boo Radley
Danny Wolohan
Jem Finch
Will Pullen
Dill Finch
Gideon Glick
Bob Ewell
Frederick Weller
Tom Robinson
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Horace Gilmer
Stark Sands
Judge Taylor
Dakin Matthews
Mayella Ewell
Erin Wilhelmi

Producers

Lincoln Center Theater

Scott Rudin

Production Credits

General Manager
Wagner Johnson Productions
Company Manager
Susan Keappock
Production Manager
Aurora Productions
Casting Director
Daniel Swee
Advertising Representative
SPOTCo
Press Agent
DKC O&M
Production Stage Manager
Charles Means

Creative Team

Based on a Story by
Harper Lee
Adaptation
Aaron Sorkin
Director
Bartlett Sher
Settings
Miriam Buether
Costumes
Ann Roth
Lighting
Jennifer Tipton
Sound
Scott Lehrer
Original Music
Adam Guettel