Onyx Theatre
953 E. Sahara Avenue
Unit 16
702-732-7225
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- When
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Feb 10–25
Fridays & Saturdays (8pm)
- Where
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Directions: In Commercial Center, at the back of The Rack
- Price
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$20/ $15 locals
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“Assassins calls itself a revusical, meaning it blends history and artistry in a performance that's one part review, one part musical. The subject matter is rather violent — the murders and attempted murders of U.S. presidents and the people who pulled the trigger — but the way the presentation is imaginative, to say the least, and definitely not what you'd expect.”
Melissa Arseniuk, Flavorpill
This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.
