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Returning to Connecticut Stages in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 

By FRANK RIZZO

 

For 65 years Richard Thomas has been a working actor, first making his Broadway debut when he was a seven-year-old in 1958’s “Sunrise at Campbell,” later earning an Emmy as John-Boy in the ‘70s TV’s hit series “The Waltons,” and then following his adult life with scores of performances on TV, film and stage.

His well-modulated voice is a familiar one for many  having narrated more than 340 audio books.

But among his most fulfilling experiences on stage were in a quartet of leading roles at Hartford Stage in the ‘80s and ‘90s: “Hamlet,” “Richard III,” “Peer Gynt” and Edward Albee’s “Tiny Alice.”

The Tony Award-nominated actor (“The Little Foxes”) returns to the state—and to the stage—to star  as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Thomas headlines the national tour of the acclaimed Broadway production which plays H