NEW YORK, June 22 (UPI) -- Writer Aaron Sorkin will return to New York in November when his play, "The Farnsworth Invention," about the birth of television, debuts on Broadway.
Sorkin's last Broadway work was the 1989 military drama, "A Few Good Men," which closed in 1991 after 497 performances. Since then, Sorkin's career veered into film with "The American President," and then television with ABC's "Sports Night," NBC's Emmy-winning White House drama "The West Wing" and the short-lived "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," Variety reported Friday.
Des McAnuff will direct the new play, which is scheduled to start in November as an ensemble drama with a cast of 19. The play spans the first half of the 20th century, focusing on American electronics pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth and Russian-born David Sarnoff as they spar over credit for the advent of television and its direction.
