The Farnsworth Invention
Hank Azaria stars in Aaron Sorkin's new drama about the origins of television.
It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, his rival will gain the edge. Who will unlock the key to the greatest invention of the 20th century: ruthless media mogul David Sarnoff, head of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), or Philo T. Farnsworth, the self-taught Idaho farm boy who began his work on the device while still a high school student?
Aaron Sorkin, the award-winning creator of TV's The West Wing, returns to Broadway for the first time since his hit 1989 drama A Few Good Men. His fast-paced new play brings the bitter conflict between Sarnoff and Farnworth—and the humanity of the two men, both of whom cared deeply about the future of this miraculous invention—to riveting life.
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