Harper Lee: Last News

Tom Hollander has been cast as Truman Capote in the upcoming second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series Feud.Season one, which aired in 2017, starred Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange respectively as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.Now season two, which Variety reports has also brought Diane Lane and Calista Flockhart aboard, will focus on how Truman alienated his New York society circle. Uncanny: Tom Hollander (left) has been cast as Truman Capote (right) in the upcoming second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series FeudDiane Lane will be Nancy 'Slim' Keith and Calista Flockhart will portray Jackie Kennedy's younger and more vivacious sister Lee Radziwill.News of their casting comes after it emerged Naomi Watts has been enlisted as Barbara 'Babe' Paley, along with Chloe Sevigny as CZ Guest.  Slim Keith, Babe Paley, CZ Guest and Lee Radziwill were pillars of the New York society world that initially embraced Truman - only to freeze him out after he aired out their dirty laundry in a thinly-veiled short story.Truman, who was born in the south and was a childhood friend of To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, was launched into the New York beau monde after achieving phenomenal literary success in the 1950s and 60s.

Wilson Chapman editor“To Kill A Mockingbird,” Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved coming-of-age novel, will not return to Broadway as previously announced, The New York Times reported.A spokesperson for the production declined to comment on the cancellation to Variety.The stage play, which opened on Broadway in 2018, played its final performance at the Shubert Theatre on Jan. 16.

To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s hit stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel currently on a lengthy Covid-prompted hiatus, will not return to Broadway after all, and both Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher are blaming the original lead producer Scott Rudin.

To Kill a Mockingbird (★★★★☆), Aaron Sorkin’s riveting adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.At some point in U.S. history, the race, class, and gender dynamics driving Lee’s combustible scenario might feel quaint, laughably antiquated, obsolete.

Girl From The North Country, Conor McPherson’s acclaimed musical that reimagines the songs of Bob Dylan, will return to Broadway from its three-month Covid hiatus, with a return date set for April 29. The production will conclude its 50-performance limited engagement on June 11.

The 2022-23 Broadway in Hollywood season at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles will include the Alanis Morissette musical Jagged Little Pill, the current Broadway hit Six and To Kill a Mockingbird starring Richard Thomas as Atticus and featuring Mary Badham, who played Scout in the classic 1962 film version, as the mean-tempered racist neighbor Mrs. Dubose.

booktriggerwarnings.com, cites vices across classic literature such as fatphobia, age-gap romances, discrimination against gypsies, and even diarrhea as some of the red flags for readers.Though, the minds behind the concept are quick to admit that the team of peer-based trigger spotters are not all that qualified. “We are not medical/psychological professionals and do not claim that our pages are complete or accurate,” a homepage message reads, also warning “just because a book ‘looks safe’ for you on our site does not guarantee that it is.”There’s been a total of 6,701 books to have trigger warnings on the webpage, the Daily Mail reported.

Mary Badham, Hollywood’s original Scout Finch in the 1962 film of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, has been cast in the touring stage production of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation. This time around, Badham, who has acted infrequently in the decades since her indelible performance in the classic movie, will portray Scout’s mean-as-a-snake drug-addicted racist neighbor Mrs. Dubose.

Alvin Deutsch, the attorney who represented singer Peggy Lee in her landmark victory over Walt Disney Productions and more recently tangled with Broadway producer Scott Rudin and the estate of author Harper Lee over rights to a stage production of To Kill A Mockingbird, died Oct. 6 at his home in New York City. He was 89.

The closing notice and possible return for Broadway’s Girl From The North Country was barely cold before a second major production announced its own hiatus: To Kill a Mockingbird will close this Sunday and reopen on June 1.

Aaron Sorkin, whose stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird resumes performances on Broadway next week, says in a new interview that Scott Rudin, the show’s former producer, “got what he deserves” after details of past bullying and workplace abuse came to light last spring. But the writer adds that he has refrained from publicly commenting on the situation because Rudin’s “lying flat on the mat right now, and I don’t know how it’s helpful for me to stand on his torso and kind of jump up and down.”

It's been four weeks since California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered residents to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.And it seems that self-isolation is wearing a little thin for Vanessa Hudgens.The 31-year-old posted to her Instagram Story on Wednesday that she was 'wearing my hair in pigtails and putting on fake tats.