CHICAGO Opens Tonight at Mainstage Center for the Arts
An American Classic Comes Alive at Mainstage
Blackwood – Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird soared to the top of the bestseller’s list upon its 1960 release with its groundbreaking portrayal of racial injustice. Its messages of tolerance, justice, dignity, and courage continue to remain important today. In fact, it was voted best-loved American novel in a national poll that ran from April through October 2018 as part of PBS’ Great American Read television series. Mainstage Center for the Arts will bring a beautiful stage adaption of this timeless tale to life as it presents To Kill A Mockingbird , February 8 – 10 directed by Marge Triplo and Nick Zaccaria. To Kill A Mockingbird transports audience to the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb where Depression-era siblings, Jem ( Michael Thompson of Sicklerville ), and Scout Finch (Sophia Donato of Gloucester Township), along with their friend, Dill (Dominick McNew, Jr. of Haddon Township), witness a tense tug-of-war between justice and racism in their community. It’s told fro...
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