Horizon Performing Arts presents "Assassins"

Name: Horizon Performing Arts presents "Assassins"
Start: 2025-03-06T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-06T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Riverside Arts Center

Schedule

Thu Mar 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Riverside Arts Center | Ypsilanti, MI

Join Horizon Performing Arts as we bring a multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force to Ypsilanti audiences. 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.
DATES: March 6, 7, & 8 at 7 p.m. and March 9 at 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Riverside Arts Center
Directed by Connor Thomas Rhoades
Music Directed by Ezra Donner
Tickets can be purchased by visiting horizonpa.yapsody.com
Regular admission: $20
Students/Seniors: $18
This production is rated R due to language, violence, and mature themes. We do not recommend this production for anyone under the age of 18.