Assassins

Description

music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim 

book by John Weidman

based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc. - New York City produced ASSASSINS Off-Broadway in 1990

orchestrations by Michael Starobin

First Broadway Production, 2004

Roundabout Theatre Company

Todd Haimes, Artistic Director

directed by Weston Scott

In a country built on the promise of liberty, what drives someone to try to kill the person who represents that promise?

Stephen Sondheim’s dark, razor-sharp musical presents a lineup of figures from American history who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, American presidents.

This daring one-person staging, directed by Weston Scott, features  Adam KuveNiemann (Ironbound, Exodus to Eden) as the solo performer portraying every character in this famed musical.

This one-of-a-kind production reveals how an epidemic of white male isolation cascading across the country can lead to violence. Here, every gunman, dreamer, outcast, and would-be revolutionary exists within a single alienated individual. As KuveNiemann moves through history’s most infamous attempts on presidential power, we reckon with how a nation that confuses freedom with independence can unravel itself through violence.

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