{"id":622616,"date":"2026-10-06T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622616\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:48:24","slug":"aaron-sorkin-on-a-few-good-mens-new-broadway-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622616\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin on A Few Good Men’s new Broadway “polish”"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since its premiere in 1989, A Few Good Men<\/a> is returning to the Broadway stage. Playwright Aaron Sorkin worked with screenwriter William Goldman when it was adapted into the 1992 film from director Rob Reiner, and Sorkin is still tweaking it more than 30 years later. \u201cOne of the things I like about being a writer is that you can get better as you get older. It\u2019s the opposite of an athlete,\u201d Sorkin said at a press conference at the Vivian Beaumont Theater this morning. \u201cSo I asked them if I could do a polish. I asked them if we could treat this as a new play, not as a revival.\u201d Director Michael Arden, who has won Tonys recently for his work on Parade and Maybe Happy Ending, welcomed that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what does this new, \u201cpolished\u201d version of A Few Good Men actually look like? When we asked, Sorkin was careful to assure everyone that \u201cit\u2019s A Few Good Men.\u201d Said Sorkin, \u201cI haven\u2019t changed the plot of it or the characters. It\u2019s honestly just a dialogue polish. Some jokes that were clunkier are less clunky, that kind of thing.\u201d Joked Arden, \u201cit\u2019s set in a 19th century pie shop<\/a>.\u201d (It\u2019s not.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was Bradley Whitford, who played Daniel Kaffee on Broadway in 1990 and returns to the play now as Nathan Jessep, who had the most to say during the conference. \u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t say this in public, but I did have a nightmare where I woke up and the review said, \u2018Quaker Theater Boy Fails To Convince As Marine,’\u201d he quipped during his time. But Whitford had nothing but good things to say about Sorkin\u2019s script and the \u201cdeep questions\u201d it probes. \u201cHow are we going to make it work on this shrinking little planet? Is it gonna be through cooperation, through agreements, to obey the laws and use a legal system to arbitrate things that we disagree about, or is it about dominance and obliteration?\u201d he wondered. \u201cI think you can\u2019t kill your way to a better future. And the play deals with that in a non-condescending way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Few Good Men begins previews on October 8 and opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 29. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since its premiere in 1989, A Few Good Men is returning to the Broadway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-622616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}