You Can’t Handle the Truth! The Story Behind Broadway’s A Few Good Men

Дата публикации: 01-10-2026 15:15:00

Since its Broadway debut in 1989, the fast-paced courtroom drama A Few Good Men has been in constant rotation at theaters around the world. Centering on the trial of two Marines accused of murder at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba, the play and its starry 1992 film adaptation launched the writing career of Aaron Sorkin, who was just 28 on opening night. Almost four decades later, A Few Good Men is getting a new production at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, directed by three-time Tony winner Michael Arden. Here’s a look back—and forward—at a play that combines suspense, humor and surprisingly timely themes.
Aaron Sorkin (Photo by Mikey Gulcicek for Broadway.com)
The Write Stuff
Before winning five Emmys for his work on The West Wing and an Oscar for writing The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin was an unemployed actor and bartender at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. The stagestruck younger son in a family of lawyers in suburban Scarsdale, New York, he entered adulthood with a deeply held feeling of inferiority. “I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up,” he said in a 2001 New York Times Magazine profile. “I had nothing to offer …

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