‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to reopen on Broadway Oct. 5

June 10 (UPI) — Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger are returning to the Broadway staging of To Kill a Mockingbird when the play reopens on Oct. 5, producers said Thursday.

Like most live performances in New York City, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been shut down for more than a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Directed by Bartlett Sher, the show opened in 2018. It is about a White lawyer defending a Black man wrongly accused of rape in 1930s Alabama.

Keenan-Bolger won a Tony Award for her performance in the production.

To Kill a Mockingbird was the basis for a 1962 film starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Brock Peters.

Daniels and Sorkin previously worked together on the HBO drama, The Newsroom.

“All rise for Aaron Sorkin’s great play. One of the best in history.” (NPR). Harper Lee’s spellbinding To Kill a Mockingbird is back on Broadway October 5 with Jeff Daniels returning as Atticus Finch, and Celia Keenan-Bolger reprising her Tony Award®-winning performance as Scout. pic.twitter.com/7v2cml3YUv— To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway (@mockingbirdbway) June 10, 2021