Aaron Sorkin News

With The West Wing , Aaron Sorkin made it cool to care about politics. Sorkin's band of quippy White House staffers and a president who was hard not to love helped him walk the line between politics and entertainment and score repeated Emmy wins.

It may be that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has forever set the standard for an evening at the White House. In the warm and golden fictional world he envisioned in 'The American President' and 'The West Wing,' events at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. were always grand, glorious and utter perfection. The amount of pomp was just enough to give rise to goose bumps but not discomfort. Every speech was spot-on eloquent, not just one for the history books but one that mesmerized the ear with its musical cadence. And Mother Nature most certainly never rained on Sorkin's White House. Not on the day of a state dinner.

It might be that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has ruined the White House forever. In the warm and golden fictional world he envisioned in 'The American President' and 'The West Wing,' events at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. were always grand, glorious and utter perfection. The amount of pomp was just enough to give rise to goose bumps but not discomfort. Every speech was spot-on eloquent, not just one for the history books but also one that mesmerized the ear with its musical cadence. And Mother Nature most certainly never rained on Sorkin's White House. Not on the day of a state dinner.

TV Guide magazine: It looks like Aaron Sorkin is plotting a return to TV , and he's planning to write another series taking place behind the scenes of a television shows, much like previous shows "Sports Night" and "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip." Poynter: "Daily Show" producers are serious about creating real media criticism along with the fake ...

Posted Nov 18th 2009 4:29PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: Programming , Celebrities , Reality-Free In last week's TV Squad Podcast , I mentioned how I liked Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip .

Good news? Bad news? Who knows? Aaron Sorkin is returning to the world of television set behind the scenes of television .

Emmy-winner Aaron Sorkin is planning to return to TV. The "West Wing" creator has another series after he completes his film work.

Theatre students at Pickerington High School Central will present a four-night run of Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men" this week.

It's just a flicker at first, a blurry wisp of light on the screen. But as the world's first television blinks to life in "The Farnsworth Invention," on stage through Nov.22 at the Des Moines Playhouse, its creators marvel at their success.

Aaron Sorkin's Broadway hit later made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, is running now through November 22nd at the Ridgedale Players Theater in Troy.

Television I like rarely stands a chance. If I really love a show, chances are good its days are numbered.

The Kilgore College Theatre Department will perform the courtroom drama, "A Few Good Men," by Aaron Sorkin beginning next week.

The Kilgore College Theatre Department will perform the courtroom drama, "A Few Good Men," by Aaron Sorkin, Oct.

September 13, 2009, 7:10 AM / The Kavinoky Theatre is continuing its new-found love affair with playwright and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin with its first offering of the stage season, his stirring, thought-provoking "A Few Good Men." This on the heels of the acclaimed interpretation of another fast, intelligent and probing Sorkin work of a few months ...

Post Partners Ads 5:31 PM - September 8, 2009 by Jane McEntegart As the days go by we're hearing more details about the Facebook movie and today's tidbit of information is, well, a little more disappointing than the fact that it's being directed by the same man who directed Fight Club.

This week, EW University takes a look at the people who helped shape the modern TV landscape.

Here's an excellent and evocative one-liner from Peter Suderman's recent Reason post about netroots disillusionment with the current administration , for whom charisma, control of all three branches of government, and regular bons mots are apparently insufficient leverage to establish an agenda that satisfies the truest of the true believers: ...

IF THIS was typical of the quality of productions we are going to see from the newly-formed Bootcamp Theatre Company in the future theatre-goers are certainly in for a treat.

AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL - The contestants arrive at the exotic overseas location, where their navigational skills immediately are tested by a scavenger hunt around the city.

Word on the street is that scouts for " The Social Network ," a flick based on local author Ben Mezrich's tell-all book about the founding of Facebook in a Harvard dorm, are actively looking for locations in Cambridge and Boston armed with a script crafted by Aaron Sorkin, the writer for such flicks as "Charlie Wilson's War" and "A Few Good Men." ...