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Scout Finch is coming to Broadway.

鈥淪teve Jobs鈥� writer Aaron Sorkin is reportedly adapting Harper Lee鈥檚 classic novel 鈥淭o Kill a Mockingbird鈥� for the Great White Way.听

Producer Scott Rudin will produce the stage adaptation. Rudin has previously produced such stage productions as the hit musical 鈥淭he Book of Mormon鈥� and the most recent production of 鈥淎 Raisin in the Sun,鈥� which starred Denzel Washington.听

鈥淢ockingbird鈥� has been adapted for the stage before, though the show has not come to Broadway. Writer Christopher Sergel brought the story to the stage and the play was staged in London, among other locations.听

The announcement of the new play follows the publication last summer of a new book by Lee titled 鈥淕o Set a Watchman.鈥� 鈥淲atchman鈥� was written prior to 鈥淢ockingbird鈥� but set after 鈥淢ockingbird鈥� and centers on an adult Scout. The book quickly became a bestseller.

The story of 鈥淢ockingbird,鈥� which centers on young Alabama resident Scout and her experiences as her attorney father Atticus defends an African-American man accused of rape, has never left American culture, though it began making headlines again with the publication of 鈥淲atchman.鈥�

But since the release of 鈥淢ockingbird鈥� in 1960, the novel has continued to gain new readers, with the novel regularly assigned in schools. A film version of the story that was released in 1962 was nominated for Best Picture and earned actor Gregory Peck a Best Actor Oscar for his role as Atticus as well as a Best Supporting Actress nomination for actress Mary Badham, who portrayed Scout.听

In 2014, 鈥淢ockingbird鈥� came in at number one in a poll by readers asked to select the most impactful works written by women. Those behind the Baileys women鈥檚 prize for fiction asked women to identify on social media a novel that influenced their lives.

鈥淲ith human rights under attack the world over, the enduring appeal of Harper Lee's great tale gives hope that justice and equality might yet triumph over prejudice,鈥� said Shami Chakrabarti, who was the head judge for the Baileys prize, .听

Another aspect of the continuing popularity of the book lies in the novel鈥檚 protagonist, writes .听

鈥淪he does skilfully balance vivid memory with the perception of hindsight,鈥� Battersby writes of Lee鈥檚 depiction of Scout. 鈥淏y doing so she brilliantly evokes a very real sense of childhood remembered. It is a sympathetic novel, but never a sentimental one and therein rests its appeal鈥�. Lee, by setting听鈥楾o Kill A Mockingbird鈥�听in 1935, exposed the racism still rampant in Alabama. Few writers have succeeded in crafting as charming and as powerful a polemic.鈥�