Aaron Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird To Open at the Fox Tuesday

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The play will run from February 28 to March 12.

Aaron Sorkin knew when he took on the task of adapting Harper Lee's famous, required-ninth-grade-reading novel To Kill a Mockingbird that he was "going to ruin everyone's childhood," he told Datebook when the play was touring San Francisco.

The writer of The West Wing and A Few Good Men made so many changes to the original story — expanding the role of Calpurnia the housekeeper, changing Atticus Finch from saintly lawyer into more human man, etc. — that Lee's estate sued him.

With that settled, though, Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird hit the ground running and was an instant sensation. The story is updated for the stage and our modern times, but the central crux of a white lawyer, Atticus Finch, defending a Black man accused of rape in the American South in the 1950s stays the same.

Catch the reimagining of a classic at the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard, 314-534-1111) from February 28 to March 12. Show times vary. Tickets are $29 to $110 and can be purchased at fabulousfox.com.

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