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Stephen Sondheim's 'Assassins' lays bare the bizarre role of guns in American culture

  • Written by: Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University
Stephen Sondheim's 'Assassins' lays bare the bizarre role of guns in American cultureGreat playwrights have always used the theater to narrate and interrogate the history of their society.Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images

Long before the numbing regularity of school shootings, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the current Supreme Court debate over whether to further relax gun laws, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was sounding the...

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