to kill a mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird A Hit on Broadway

November 18, 2018 admin 0

A stage production of Harper Lee’s beloved American classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird opened recently on Broadway and, according to Playbill, the show is a hit: After a strong showing in its first few performances in the week ending November 4, Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird joined the Millionaire’s Club in a seven-performance week. The play grossed $1,130,163 (93.16 percent of its potential) for the week ending November 11, surpassing 100 percent capacity at […]

Biloxi Blues: To Kill a Mockingbird Banned

October 16, 2017 admin 2

Some of the language in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is “making some people uncomfortable.” That’s what members of a Mississippi school board said recently when they pulled the book from the eighth-grade curriculum in Biloxi. The Sun Herald broke the story: When asked Thursday morning if the book had been pulled from the course, Superintendent Arthur McMillan issued a statement five hours later that said: “There are many resources and […]

Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird,
Has Died

February 19, 2016 admin 0

The author of To Kill a Mockingbird and last year’s controversial Go Set a Watchman has died. She was 89 years old. From The New York Times: Her death was confirmed by Mary Jackson, the city clerk in Monroeville, Ala., where Ms. Lee lived. Ms. Jackson could not say where or when Ms. Lee died. The instant success of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction […]