A Time To Kill
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John Golden Theatre (Broadway)
252 West 45th St. New York, NY
This fall, John Grisham's debut novel A TIME TO KILL, one of the most celebrated courtroom dramas of the last several decades, becomes the first in his iconic collection of legal dramas to be adapted for the Broadway stage.
A TIME TO KILL is the incendiary story of a Southern community torn in half by an unspeakable crime. As the shocking news hits the public, small town America becomes the center of a media storm, where innocence is the victim, race is on trial and lives hang in the balance.
Part courtroom drama, part suspense thriller, pure theatrical dynamite, A TIME TO KILL begins performances September 28 at the Golden Theatre.
'It was my first book and the first that I have allowed to be adapted for the theatre. Rupert Holmes did an excellent job of translating it from the page to the stage, and I am happy that not only my loyal readers, but a whole new audience, will be able to experience this story in live theatre.'
- John Grisham
A Time To Kill - 2013 - Broadway Cast
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Broadway Review: ‘A Time to Kill’
6 / 10
Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of John Grisham's first novel, 'A Time to Kill,' comes at a sweet moment for the author, whose belated sequel to that 1989 book, 'Sycamore Row,' is being published this month. But a 25-year time lapse that works on the page doesn't necessarily play on the stage, and there's a distinctly dated feeling to the material - not the topic of Southern racism, but the youthful idealism of its hero. And despite a sturdy ensemble production helmed by Ethan McSweeny, this courtroom drama feels as if it were made for an earlier, less cynical era.
Theater Review: A Time to Kill
5 / 10
The play's a series of battles that don't quite add up to a war, possibly because the real enemy-Monolithic Whiteness-doesn't make an honest appearance. The show's less strenuously riveting moments, as opposed to the drowsy-making courtroom speeches, are also its best. I especially enjoyed the elliptical, only half-intelligible conversations between Jake and his mentor, disbarred, sleepily devious Lucien Wilbanks (Tom Skerritt), a progressive sot who enjoys regular regressions into Margaritaville. Skerritt is so relaxed, you can barely understand his cottony mouthfuls of dialogue, but he's a loose, disarming present in a highly staged, totally controlled environment. In A Time To Kill, every familiar beat arrives right on time-but Skerritt's always just a little late. I appreciated the spontaneity, intentional or not.
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