“I do not want any controversy associated with me to interrupt Broadway’s well deserved return, or specifically, the return of the 1500 people working on these shows,” said the embattled theater uber-producer at the time.
After New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Broadway League announced that the theater industry would turn its lights back on to full capacity starting Sept.
“We’ve been waiting more than a year for Mockingbird — and all of Broadway — to come back, so this is a very happy announcement,” said Sorkin in a statement.
To Kill a Mockingbird, which is produced by Barry Diller and directed by Bartlett Sher from the classic Harper Lee story, has amassed a total gross of more than $125 million and, before the Broadway shutdown, played to standing-room-only houses.
Hard-hit from the coronavirus pandemic, Broadway has been shut down since March 12, 2020.