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In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.
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She has become known an Ibsen whisper, bringing “An Enemy of the People” to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams.
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The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.
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In a pared-down Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House,” the Oscar-winning actress doesn’t have props, period costumes or much of a set. To her surprise, she likes it.
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Three years ago a new Broadway play based on the classic Harper Lee novel tried to prevent regional stagings of an earlier dramatization. Now, the roles are reversed.
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The estate is contesting an arbitrator’s ruling that it had been too aggressive in limiting productions of a 1970 adaptation of the novel as Aaron Sorkin’s new staged version came to Bro…
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The Broadway star is writing a memoir with the help of a journalist who encouraged her to share what she’s really like, alter ego and all.
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Thanks to a viral musical that just opened on Broadway, Ned Vizzini’s 2004 novel is reaching a big new audience, five years after he killed himself.
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A filing seeking arbitration says the estate allowed eight theaters around the United States to stage “To Kill a Mockingbird,” then flip-flopped at the last minute.
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Scott Rudin's offer was extended to any theater whose rights to stage the old version had been challenged by his legal team.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 08:24PMFacing criticism for making regional theaters cancel productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scott Rudin said he would let them go on, using the new Aaron Sorkin script.
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Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” under legal threat by Broadway and Hollywood producer Scott …
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 10:11PMSome community theaters have canceled productions of the play after receiving legal warnings that theirs cannot go on at the same time as the one in New York.
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Harper Lee’s estate objected to elements of Aaron Sorkin’s early stage adaptation. Now it arrives on Broadway with concessions from both sides.
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A legal battle had been waged over whether a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” strayed too far from Harper Lee’s novel. On Thursday, the suits were settled.
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The disagreement over the characterization of Atticus Finch expands to a second lawsuit between the producers and the Lee estate.
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Here is how our panel of lawyers looked at key issues in a lawsuit over Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel.
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In an inversion of the usual adaptation process, the creators of the hit musical are releasing a novel based on the play.
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The federal suit says that the Aaron Sorkin’s script for the play, set this fall for Broadway, deviates too much from “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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The celebrated playwright spent the last months of his life working tirelessly on a final book, an intimate and philosophical look at his protagonist’s — and his own — health struggles.
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Knopf will publish “Spy of the First Person,” which the actor and playwright wrote in the final months of his life.
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In his bold modern adaptation of King Lear, St. Aubyn envisions Lear as an aging media mogul whose empire and legacy are under threat from his daughters.
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A federal judge has ruled that “Who’s Holiday!” doesn’t violate the copyright of the Dr. Seuss classic, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
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Alexandra Silber’s imagining of what comes next for a character in “Fiddler on the Roof,” titled “After Anatevka,” will be published next summer.
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The behind-the-scenes book, designed to mimic the appearance of a text from Hamilton’s era, proves nearly as elusive as a Broadway ticket.
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Seeing the Broadway version of his controversial novel for the first time, the author had his doubts, but he was enthusiastic about the production.
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The producer Scott Rudin has acquired stage rights for Harper Lee’s novel and has hired Aaron Sorkin to adapt the story. Bartlett Sher will direct.
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A biography of Alexander Hamilton by the historian Ron Chernow inspired the hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Now Grand Central Publishing has acquired Mr. Miranda’s b…
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