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A Utah theater axed its run of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in a licensing spat. Now it will produce Aaron Sorkin’s new version, royalty-free.

A new stage version of Harper Lee’s acclaimed novel about growing up in segregated Alabama — adapted by Emmy- and Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin — will run March 26 to April 11, 2020, a spokeswoman for The Grand confirmed Friday.

The community theater company, which performs at Salt Lake Community College, was forced to cancel a production this spring of an earlier “Mockingbird” adaptation, over a legal dispute between Broadway mogul Scott Rudin and a publishing house that held the rights to the older version.

The house, Dramatic Publishing, has for years licensed a version of “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Christoper Sergel.