TV Article Aaron Sorkin adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway By Jessica Derschowitz Jessica Derschowitz Jessica Derschowitz is the former digital features director at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2022. EW's editorial guidelines Published on February 11, 2016 12:00PM EST Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images; © Bauman Rare Books Aaron Sorkin is bringing Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to Broadway. The Oscar-winning screenwriter is writing a new stage adaptation of the iconic novel that will show during the 2017-2018 Broadway season, producer Scott Rudin — with whom Sorkin worked on last year’s Steve Jobs — announced Wednesday. Tony winner Bartlett Sher (The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof) is set to direct. Sorkin has previously written stage productions A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invasion. He won his Oscar in 2011 for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network. WANT MORE EW? Subscribe now to keep up with the latest in movies, television and music. To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960, introducing the world to characters like Atticus Finch, Scout, and “Boo” Radley. It became a film in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and has been performed on stage in 1991, at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, and a London production in 2013. This new version will mark the work’s Broadway debut. Last year, the characters returned to print again with the publication of Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, which was met with critical disappointment.