Eddie Cooper Joins Cast of Off-Broadway's Assassins; Three-Week Extension Announced

Off-Broadway alum Eddie Cooper has been cast as The Proprietor in Classic Stage Company's upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins. The production has also scheduled a three-week extension through June 7.

Cooper has previously appeared at CSC in The Cradle Will Rock and The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI. His other credits include an off-Broadway turn in This Ain't No Disco and a performance in Encores! Off-Center's Little Shop of Horrors.

Also newly announced is the Assassins ensemble, which includes Brad Giovanine, Bianca Horn, Whit K. Lee, Rob Morrison, Zell Steele Morrow and Katrina Yaukey.

They join the previously announced Ethan Slater as Lee Harvey Oswald/The Balladeer, Steven Pasquale as John Wilkes Booth, Judy Kuhn as Sara Jane Moore, Will Swenson as Charles Guiteau, Brandon Uranowitz as Leon Czolgosz, Wesley Taylor as Giuseppe Zangara, Adam Chanler-Berat as John Hinckley Jr., Tavi Gevinson as Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Andy Grotelueschen as Samuel Byck.

Assassins explores the lives of nine men and women who either killed (or tried to kill) one of the Presidents of the United States. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald and beyond, the stories of our country’s most successful and would-be assassins intersect in unexpected ways, creating a powerful, yet unnervingly funny look at some of the most shocking moments in U.S. history.

CSC Artistic Director John Doyle will helm the production, scheduled to begin previews on April 2 and officially open on April 16.