What better play to make that happen than a reinvention of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a masterpiece that cuts not just into prejudice, but systemic racial injustice, gender equality, opioid addiction and issues of class. “They need the experience of a good play to drop that prejudice.” “Sometimes people worry that plays aren’t going to be entertaining, or be too serious,” he said. And in Schenectady, and Des Moines, and Memphis - just a few of the cities it hits on a two-year tour. For a dozen reasons, Thomas believes “To Kill a Mockingbird” belongs in Boston. But this week, Thomas brings Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” to Boston, Tuesday through April 17 at the Citizens Bank Opera House.īest known as John Boy from “The Waltons” and now a Tony-nominated actor, Thomas plays Atticus Finch, a white Southern lawyer defending a Black man accused of raping a white woman in Alabama in the ’30s. Lately, it’s mostly Broadway musicals that have trekked across the land. Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt brought risque new works to small cities in the ’20s and ’30s. Traveling Shakespeare companies went from town to town from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II. The Lunts toured, Julie Harris toured, all these actors toured in musicals and plays.” “This practice is centuries old … and Broadway actors toured back in the day. “One of the most storied ways of being an actor is to go with a company on the road,” actor Richard Thomas told the Herald. Theater should meet the people where they’re at.
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