SAN JOSE, Calif. — Richard Thomas — like millions of others — read Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a student.
“Probably early high school,” the acclaimed actor recalls. “I loved the book.”
Yet, then he did something that a lot of people don’t: He read the book again as an adult. Of course, Thomas had a good reason to do so, since he’d just been cast to play the character Atticus Finch in the touring production of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which opens to the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on Sept. 13.
