Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention to Close March 2

Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention, which stars Hank Azaria and newcomer Jimmi Simpson, will end its Broadway run on March 2. The fact-based drama will have played 34 preview and 104 regular performances at the Music Box Theatre at the time of closing.

The Farnsworth Invention centers around the bitter conflict that pitted Philo T. Farnsworth Simpson, a boy genius who invented television as a high school student in 1927, against David Sarnoff Azaria, the head of the Radio Corporation of America RCA. The legal battle between Farnsworth and RCA would later become known as one of the great, tragic examples of legal and industrial force combining to crush a rightful patent owner. In a race that would change humanity forever, two men battle one another for honor, glory and a place in the history books.

The Farnsworth Invention opened on December 3.