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FOR RELEASE ON TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026
CONCORD THEATRICALS
ACQUIRES WORLDWIDE LICENSING RIGHTS FOR
AARON SORKIN’S ADAPTATION OF HARPER LEE’S
“TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
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New York, NY (March 31, 2026) – Concord Theatricals is pleased to announce that it has acquired worldwide licensing rights to Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird for its Samuel French imprint. For more information about this Tony Award-winning play, based on the American classic, visit concordsho.ws/Mockingbird.
“Doing plays in high school and college and my local community theater is what made me want to write plays,” said Sorkin. “I’m thrilled that Concord is making To Kill a Mockingbird available for stock and amateur productions now and I’m wishing everyone who does the play the best of luck.”
“I stand second to none in my admiration for Aaron Sorkin’s incredible writing, and we are proud to continue to be his licensor and publisher,” said Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive of Concord. “Harper Lee’s enduring classic remains relevant and inspiring, and Aaron’s masterful stage play will continue to engage and enthrall audiences from schools to professionals worldwide.”
Set in Alabama in 1934, Harper Lee’s enduring story of racial injustice and childhood innocence centers on one of the most venerated characters in American literature, small-town lawyer Atticus Finch. He encourages kindness and empathy in his children, Scout and Jem, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it. Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Hollywood Reporter commands audiences to “all rise,” calling the play “a transfixing act of theatrical storytelling that makes us hang on every word as if experiencing the story for the first time.” The New York Stage Review raves, “Harper Lee’s classic makes magnificent theater.”
To Kill a Mockingbird holds the record as the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history. It began performances on November 1, 2018, at the Shubert Theatre and played to sold-out houses until the Broadway shutdown in March 2020. On February 26, 2020, To Kill a Mockingbird became the first-ever Broadway play to perform at New York’s Madison Square Garden, in front of approximately 18,000 New York City public school students, also marking the largest attendance at a single performance of a play ever in world theater. The production resumed performances on October 5, 2021, and concluded its run at the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 2022. To Kill a Mockingbird resumed performances at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre in the summer of 2022 before transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End.
Since then, To Kill a Mockingbird has been on a massive two-year tour through the United States and United Kingdom, set to conclude this May. The play was nominated for nine Tony Awards – winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play – and earned a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, as well as a Theater World Award.
BIOGRAPHIES
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, plus over one hundred new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, James Graham, Katori Hall, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Kitt & Yorkey, Marlow & Moss, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Arthur Miller, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions. We are the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to the creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and first-class producing. As a producer and record label, the company has won three Tony Awards and two GRAMMY Awards in the past six years. www.concordtheatricals.com
Aaron Sorkin made his Broadway debut with A Few Good Men, which earned him the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Playwright. His other plays are The Farnsworth Invention and the stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which was nominated for 9 Tony Awards and went on to become the most successful American play on Broadway. He contributed a new book for Bartlett Sher’s Lincoln Center production of Camelot. In movies, Sorkin’s screen adaptation of A Few Good Men was nominated for Best Picture. He followed that with The American President and Charlie Wilson’s War, directed by Mike Nichols. In 2011, Sorkin won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics’ Choice Award for writing The Social Network and followed that with nominations for Moneyball and Steve Jobs. He wrote and directed Molly’s Game, The Trial of the Chicago 7–nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture—and Being the Ricardos. In television, Sorkin wrote and produced Sports Night and followed that with The West Wing, which won two Peabody Awards and broke records for Emmy wins. He wrote and produced Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the HBO series The Newsroom. His latest film, The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network, stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong and will be released October 9th.
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