Aaron Sorkin

"SPORTS NIGHT," which lived for two seasons a decade back, was the first in a trilogy of TV series written by Aaron Sorkin and produced by Thomas Schlamme; "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" are, respectively, its more successful and less successful successors. A sitcom set in the offices and studio of a cable-TV sports show, based on "SportsCenter" on ESPN, "Sports Night" is on the face of it the least ambitious of the three.

Steven Spielberg may help bring "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin back to Broadway, according to Variety, which reported Tuesday that it was likely that the filmmaker will join Broadway producing organization Dodger Theatricals ("Jersey Boys") for a New York production of Sorkin's play "The Farnsworth Invention." Michael David of Dodger Theatricals told Variety that his company currently has no plans to produce "The Farnsworth Invention," but should that change, "Mr.

Screenwriter-playwright Aaron Sorkin, creator of TV's "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," will team with La Jolla Playhouse's outgoing artistic director, Des McAnuff, and Flaming Lips band member Wayne Coyne to create a stage musical based on the Flaming Lips' 10th album, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," which tells the story of fictional character Yoshimi's battle against evil.

"West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin's new play "The Farnsworth Invention" -- the filmmaker's first stage play since his 1989 New York hit, "A Few Good Men" -- will open on Broadway this year. An exploration of the controversial story behind the invention of television, "Farnsworth" was originally commissioned by Dublin's Abbey Theater and developed at the La Jolla Playhouse under departing artistic director Des McAnuff, who will direct the New York production for Dodger Theatricals ("Jersey Boys").

While liberals of a certain age continue to bemoan the lack of protests and demonstrations against the Iraq war, in swoop Steven Spielberg and Aaron Sorkin to remind the nation about the politically tumultuous summer of 1968. Sorkin, the writer behind "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," has been hired by Spielberg's DreamWorks to draft three screenplays.

WHEN Aaron Sorkin was a young nobody in New York in the 1980s, working as a bartender while writing his Broadway hit, "A Few Good Men," on cocktail napkins, he found himself observing the media darlings of the moment. The threesome, Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz, were all as well known for their off-stage antics as they were for their literary work.

Aaron Sorkin is trading the Sunset Strip for Broadway. The creator of television's "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" will return to Broadway this fall with "The Farnsworth Invention," his new play about the birth of television. The production, starring Hank Azaria and Jimmi Simpson, will open Nov. 14 at the Music Box Theatre, its producers, Dodger Properties, announced Wednesday. Preview performances begin Oct. 15. Des McAnuff will direct.