Sorkin's Stage

June 26, 2007

Aaron Sorkin, creator of the acclaimed “West Wing” and the underappreciated “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”, is returning to the theater next season with a Broadway production of his new play, “The Farnsworth Invention”.

Sorkin is no stranger to the stage, having written the hit drama “A Few Good Men”, which later when on to the big screen starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise.

The play, which may be produced in part by Steven Speilberg, centers on Philo T. Farnsworth, the young man who invented television, and his legal struggle against David Sarnoff, then the head of RCA. Says the LaJolla Playhouse, where the show was developed last spring, “The legal battle between Farnsworth and RCA would later become known as one of the great, tragic examples of legal and industrial force combining to crush a rightful patent owner”. The Broadway production will open this November.

Even when he’s not writing for television, it seems that Sorkin still enjoys writing about television.