REVIEW: Avon Players’ ‘Assassins’ Takes Aim at The American Dream

There’s something oddly ironic about watching a play—a musical no less—that centers around presidential assassins on the 15th anniversary of 9/11. And yet that’s where I found myself on Sunday along with what looked to be a full house. Truthfully, Avon Players could not have picked a timelier topic to open their 2016 – 2017 season considering anything remotely political seems to have taken over our lives. From Lin-Manuel Miranda making Alexander Hamilton must-see theatre (11 Tony Awards® don’t … [Read more...]

Avon Players Stages Sondheim Saga of American History with ‘Assassins’

Musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim roots around in the shadow side of the American Dream in this moving, funny masterpiece Avon Players will aim its spotlights squarely at some of the darker corners of American history as they present Stephen Sondheim’s bold musical examination of the murderous mindset, Assassins, running September 9-24. In Assassins, nine figures from history who attempted—some successfully and others not—to kill the President of the United States, occupy a … [Read more...]