News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

ASSASSINS at WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Dates: (9/17/2015 - 9/19/2015 )

Theatre:

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE


WORCESTER,MA 01609

  1. View All Boston Shows
  2.  > 
  3. ASSASSINS


A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.

Assassins 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, writers, 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 inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.

Its Broadway debut in 2004 won five Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.

Videos


The Full Monty in Boston The Full Monty
The Umbrella Arts Center (4/26 - 5/19) Tracker
The Stands in Boston The Stands
Firehouse Center for the Arts (5/3 - 5/5) Tracker
THT Rep presents Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare in Boston THT Rep presents Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (4/18 - 5/12)
Head Over Heels – High School Edition in Boston Head Over Heels – High School Edition
The Company Theatre (7/11 - 7/13)
An Evening with Yotam Ottolenghi in Boston An Evening with Yotam Ottolenghi
Emerson Colonial Theatre (10/8 - 10/8)
Toni Stone in Boston Toni Stone
Huntington Theatre (5/17 - 6/16)
PHOTOS
The Best of Hans Zimmer & Film Favorites Illuminated in Boston The Best of Hans Zimmer & Film Favorites Illuminated
Emerson Colonial Theatre (5/6 - 5/6)
A Wrinkle in Time in Boston A Wrinkle in Time
Wheelock Family Theatre (4/13 - 5/11)
The Life and Music of George Michael in Boston The Life and Music of George Michael
Emerson Colonial Theatre (9/20 - 9/20)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW   FIND A JOB

Recommended For You