In Performance Video: Patrick Page in Courtroom Drama A TIME TO KILL

In today's New York Times Arts Beat 'In Performance' video, features Patrick Page, star of the new Broadway courtroom drama "A Time to Kill." In the show Page portrays a Mississippi district attorney, prosecuting the case against a black man who kills his daughter's two white attackers. Click here to watch the actor address the jury.

Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of A Time To Kill, based on John Grisham's best-selling novel, is now playing on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). Ethan McSweeny directs. Sebastian Arcelus, Chike Johnson,Patrick Page, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, Emmy Award winner Tom Skerritt, Fred Dalton Thompson, John DouglasThompson, and Ashley Williams plus Jeffrey M. Bender, Dashiell Eaves,J.R. Horne, John Procaccino, Tijuana Ricks, and Lee Sellars will star. A Time To Kill is produced by Tony Award winnerDaryl Roth and Eva Price.

A Time to Kill tells the emotionally charged, incendiary story of a young, idealistic lawyer, Jake Brigance, defending a black man, Carl Lee Hailey, for taking the law into his own hands following an unspeakable crime committed against his young daughter. Their small Mississippi town is thrown into upheaval, and Jake finds himself arguing against the formidable district attorney, Rufus Buckley, and under attack from both sides of a racially divided city. This thrilling courtroom drama remains as grippingly relevant today as it was when Grisham's story was first published in 1989.