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The Kimmel’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is contemporary, powerful, sometimes heavy-handed

In Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation, Richard Thomas’ Atticus Finch, the lawyer assigned to defend a Black man in a rape case in the 1930s South, must also take stock of his white entitlement.

Richard Thomas (Atticus Finch), left, and Yaegel T. Welch (Tom Robinson) in "To Kill a Mockingbird," playing at the Kimmel Cultural Campus' Academy of Music.
Richard Thomas (Atticus Finch), left, and Yaegel T. Welch (Tom Robinson) in "To Kill a Mockingbird," playing at the Kimmel Cultural Campus' Academy of Music.Read moreJulieta Cervantes
    by Julia M. Klein, For The Inquirer
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