A Salt Lake City community theater company has canceled its production of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” scheduled for next month, over a legal dispute even Atticus Finch couldn’t argue his way around.
Seth Miller, artistic/executive director of The Grand Theatre at Salt Lake Community College, announced Tuesday that the theater’s cancellation of its production of the Harper Lee classic — set to be performed from March 21 to April 6 — was “due to circumstances beyond our control.”
In a statement posted on the Grand’s website, Miller said the theater company was caught in a legal dispute between Lee’s estate, Rudinplay in New York — the producer of a new adaptation now playing on Broadway — and Dramatic Publishing.