Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Jeff Daniels is reuniting with his Steve Jobs and The Newsroom collaborator Aaron Sorkin on a new play based on Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird
Producers announced Daniels' casting as lawyer Atticus Finch Thursday, Playbill.com said.
Bartlett Sher is to direct the stage drama, which Sorkin wrote. The show -- which is being co-produced with Lincoln Center Theater -- is scheduled to begin previews Nov. 1 at a Broadway theater to be announced at a later date.
Co-starring will be Celia Keenan-Bolger, Will Pullen, Gideon Glick, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Stak Sands, Frederick Weller, Erin Wilhelmi, Dakin Matthews, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Phyllis Somerville and Liv Rooth, Variety said.