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The acclaimed play To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be returning to Broadway and the show’s playwright Aaron Sorkin is placing blame on disgraced producer Scott Rudin.

The show was one of the most successful plays of all time after it opened in 2018 and it returned to Broadway in Fall 2021 with original star Jeff Daniels.

After Jeff left the play on January 2, Broadway was hit by the resurgent pandemic and the producers made the decision to temporarily close the show on January 16. The original plan to reopen the play on June 1 never happened and now the show will not return at all.

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To Kill a Mockingbird ended on an abrupt and terrifying note on Tuesday night (August 6) in New York City.

The Broadway play ended after a patron heard a noise on the street which sounded like a gunshot, resulting in a panic in the theater.

“Audience members panicked and started running down the aisles or ducking for cover, and cast members fled the stage during the show’s final scene,” a witness told Deadline.

Thankfully, the noise was just a motorcycle backfiring, and the New York Police Department confirmed that despite multiple 911 calls about an active shooter, the area was safe.

The panic comes after a horrifying string of mass shootings in the United States, including two over the weekend.

“Stopped our show tonight due to a motorcycle backfire that was mistaken for a bomb or a shooting. Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety. The audience started screaming and the cast fled the stage. This is the world we live in. This cannot be our world,” actor Gideon Glick wrote after the show.

Famed writer Aaron Sorkin is writing adapting Harper Lee‘s famous book “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the Broadway stage!

The play is aiming to bow during the 2017-18 Broadway season, with Tony winner Bartlett Sher on board to direct and Scott Rudin set to produce, THR reports. No casting has been announced and no official premiere date has been released.

Aaron and Scott have collaborated in the past on 2010′s The Social Network and 2015′s Steve Jobs.

Scott reportedly spent two years acquiring the rights to the book.