Assassins

Stephen Sondheim: “If I were asked to name the show that comes the closest to my expectations for it, the answer would be ASSASSINS. Certainly, John Weidman’s book does… As far as I’m concerned, the show is perfect. Immodest that may sound, but I’m ready to argue it with anybody.” (Look, I Made a Hat. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.)

Widely considered the most controversial musical ever written, ASSASSINS premiered off-Broadway in 1990 at Playwrights Horizons and won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. This is a unique vision of American history told through imagined interactions between antiheroes from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald…from Charles Guiteau to John Hinckley.