The Broadway-bound production of To Kill a Mockingbird has been in legal trouble for some time, but answers may be coming soon. Yesterday an Alabama court judge granted Scott Rudin's request…
The case of "To Kill A Mockingbird" will officially be adjudicated in New York. A U.S. District Judge in Alabama ruled Monday that while his court had jurisdiction over a lawsuit between the…
Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the Great American Novel To Kill a Mockingbird appears headed to court before it can head to Broadway. A New York judge has set a June 4 trial date for the…
Scott Rudin's production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has to prove that it is in trouble. In a declaration filed with the Southern District Court of New York Monday, Joey Parnes, executive pro…
New suit claims Aaron Sorkin adaptation may have to be scrapped over alleged differences between the play and novel, as producers offer to stage disputed work at federal courtIn a courtroom …
A major Broadway producer and the legal representative of author Harper Lee's estate square off in court over the fate of a stage version of "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Responding to the suit filed last month by Tonja Carter, Lee's attorney and executor, arguing that Aaron Sorkin's script deviates too much from the novel, a $10 million countersuit filed Mon…
Producer Scott Rudin has fired back at the estate of author Harper Lee, charging in a lawsuit filed yesterday that a lawsuit filed last month by estate executor Tonja B. Carter could shoot d…
A splashy two-page ad in the Times just announced a December 2018 premiere for what's sure to be Broadway's most talked-about show, a new adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a M…
Will Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird make its premiere in front of a federal judge If producer Scott Rudin has his day in court, that just may be the case.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The producers of a Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" on Monday sued the author's estate saying the premiere cannot go ahead as scheduled and…
In short, Harper Lee agreed to let Aaron Sorkin write a script, but it wasn't supposed to change the characters or "denigrate" them. Lee's dead, but her lawyer says the script (of a play tha…
The author's lawyer says a contract bars the producers of a high-profile stage adaptation from departing "in any manner" from the spirit of the classic novel.
Author Harper Lee's estate is suing Aaron Sorkin over editorial liberties Sorkin took when turning the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird into a Broadway production.
Tonja B. Carter, a representative for the estate of iconic author Harper Lee, has sued producers of the new stage adaptation of Lee's Pulitzer-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, accord…
Estate alleges Aaron Sorkin's script breaches undertakings to stay faithful to Lee's novel, altering characters including Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson and Scout FinchThe estate of Harper Lee …
(Reuters) - The estate of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee has sued the producer of an upcoming Broadway adaptation, arguing that writer Aaron Sorkin's script deviates too much from…
Broadway's big-name adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, and set to open this fall, has run into trouble with Harper Lee's es…
A lawyer representing the estate of late To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee has filed suit against the producers of Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming Broadway production based on the iconic…
The upcoming Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — with a buzzy creative team that includes writer Aaron Sorkin and star Jeff Daniels — has been hit with a…
