It was also adapted into an Oscar-winning film written by Horton Foote, starring Gregory Peck. Since its publication in 1960, the book has sold more than 40 million copies and won the Pulitzer, while becoming a (mostly) beloved fixture of middle and high school reading lists. The saga began shortly after Lee’s first novel became an unexpected smash. Now, as the play is again making headlines for the controversial last-minute cancellation of Mockingbird productions around the country-effected by legal threats from Rudin’s company, but with the silent backing of Harper Lee’s estate-the classic novel’s long, strange relationship with the theatre is finally coming to light. More informed theatre mavens first heard about this new Mockingbird some months earlier, when it was reported that the estate of the original novel’s author, Harper Lee, sued the production over playwright Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation, only to be countersued by the show’s producer, Scott Rudin. To the casual theatre observer, a new stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Jeff Daniels, with a script by Aaron Sorkin, burst onto Broadway last winter, selling out every single seat for every performance and shattering box office records for an American play.
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