Richard Thomas as lawyer Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The struggle to hold on to one’s moral compass and integrity while navigating the cruel waters of bigotry, violence, racial injustice ...

A character frets “it’s not right any children should see such things” in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel. But I’m starting to think children should witness ...

The Virginia Samford Theatre's take on To Kill a Mockingbird, which I caught on its opening night, is something rare: a staging that manages to feel both reverent and alive. It dispenses with the ...

“We have to heal this wound or we will never stop bleeding,” says Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a line that neatly captures both the ambition and the ...

Sorkin has been candid in admitting he has not swaddled Lee’s novel in bubble wrap, repurposing it for the age of Trumpian politics and Black Lives Matter. (His characters deploy the n-word throughout ...