Stephen Sondheim's Assassins in the Archive by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy, Lewis B. Cullman Center

(Animation from photos by Martha Swope) The superstitious might, with some evidence, argue that when a major New York production of Assassins is announced, it's time to get very nervous. The original production opened off-Broadway in December of 1990, and its failure to move to Broadway has been blamed in part on a surge of patriotic sentiment as the first Gulf War began in January of 1991. Twenty years later, a Bro…

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