In a year with no shortage of strange developments, one of the stranger was the March lawsuit brought by the Harper Lee estate against the producers of new stage version of To Kill A Mockingbird — settled out of court (and thus privately) in May, after production company Rudinplay had countersued the estate and its representative Tonja Carter in April. With the play officially opening this week, over the weekend the NYT provided a detailed assessment of the ways in which the script is likely to have changed since the settlement. By their evaluation, of 80 script elements that Carter […]