It’s really hard to say what the national narrative is anymore,” says Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher ’81, “but one thing you can almost be certain of is every eighth-grader in the United States is probably going to read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.'”
Harper Lee’s 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner is now a Broadway play, and the adaptation joins an elite roster of classics (“South Pacific,” “My Fair Lady,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The King and I”) Sher has directed for modern audiences who — in witnessing the events of a fictional Maycomb, Alabama — may confront their own very real nation that’s wrestling with parallel issues of race, class and gender.