‘A Time to Kill’ Brings Grisham Tale to Broadway: Review

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A thriller of the sort rarely seen on Broadway these days, John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” brings a satisfying, if unsettling, courtroom drama to the Golden Theatre with an engaging cast playing juicy dramatic characters in a lurid tale spiked with a mild frisson of sex.

Set in Mississippi in the early 1980s, this is the story of a black father who has killed the two white men accused of brutally raping his 10-year-old daughter.