Taking the stage at Center City's Kimmel Cultural Campus is a new play based on an American classic and it's receiving an impassioned Broadway revival.
Broadway's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is stopping in Philadelphia on its first national tour across the country.
"It's not going to just be a beloved old classic on the road, it's going to be something a lot more plugged in and electric," says Richard Thomas. The new adaptation by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin is based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize novel. Emmy-award winning actor Richard Thomas will play defense lawyer Atticus Finch."We have great chemistry," says Yaegel T. Welch, who plays Tom Robinson, an innocent man, wrongly accused of rape.
"It's about a white family in the rural south of Macomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, 1934," says Welch,"and the laws of that world aka Jim Crow."Social injustices highlighted during the pandemic, including the murder of George Floyd, changed the tone of the play."They even started to have this sort of like passion towards the injustice that was happening to Tom Robinson because of what they witnessed," says Welch."Now she's playing Ms.
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