Oscar nominee and two-time Emmy winner Greg Kinnear made his Broadway debut as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird January 5 at the Shubert Theatre. Watch Kinnear, who succeeded Tony nominee and Emmy winner Jeff Daniels, take his first curtain call in the video above.
Baize Buzan, an original ensemble cast member of Mockingbird, returned to the production January 5, succeeding Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger in the role of Scout Finch.
Check out photos from the January 5 performance, which welcomed both Kinnear and Buzan, below:
Cast of To Kill A Mockingbird
Baize Buzan and cast of To Kill A Mockingbird
Cast of To Kill A Mockingbird
Mockingbird, based on the Harper Lee novel, resumed performances at Broadway's Shubert Theatre October 5.
Tony winner Bartlett Sher directs a company that also features Portia as Calpurnia, Hunter Parrish as Jem Finch, Michael Braugher as Tom Robinson, Russell Harvard as Link Deas, Neal Huff as Bob Ewell, Erin Wilhelmi as Mayella Ewell, Noah Robbins as Dill Harris, Zachary Booth as Horace Gilmer, Gordon Clapp as Judge John Taylor, Patricia Conolly as Mrs. Dubose, Christopher Innvar as Sheriff Heck Tate, Ted Koch as Mr. Cunningham, and Amelia McClain as Miss Stephanie. Mariah Lee will join the cast as Mayella Ewell January 11.
The ensemble includes Scout Backus, Ian Bedford, Rosalyn Coleman, Anne-Marie Cusson, Michael Bryan French, Steven Lee Johnson, Tyler Lea, Geoffrey Allen Murphy, Luke Smith, Yaegel T. Welch, and William Youmans.
To Kill a Mockingbird began performances November 1, 2018, at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre. On February 26, 2020—a few weeks before the Broadway shutdown—the Broadway cast gave a history-making free performance at Madison Square Garden in front of 18,000 New York City school children.
Orin Wolf was previously named executive producer of To Kill a Mockingbird. Wolf, succeeding Scott Rudin, is overseeing all aspects of the production.
To Kill a Mockingbird will launch its national tour March 27 at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, starring Emmy winner Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch; performances will begin in London at the Gielgud Theatre March 10 starring Rafe Spall.
