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‘Assassins’ Review: A Killer Revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Macabre Masterpiece

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Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticDirector John Doyle’s electrifying staging of “Assassins,” Stephen Sondheim’s macabre masterpiece about our national infatuation with fame and our appetite for violence, is a revival to die for — figuratively, of course.A musical featuring some of the most infamous cutthroats in our nation’s history, “Assassins” was shocking when it premiered Off Broadway in 1990 at Playwrights Horizons, and then again on Broadway in 2004.

The show’s exquisitely inventive handiwork showcases more guns than you’d find at a Texas swap meet, from the clumsy .442 Webley revolver that Charles J.

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