Lizzie the musical

Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place SE Washington

On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was the prime suspect. Lizzie’s trial was a coast-to-coast media sensation, and her story has become an American legend. LIZZIE is four women fronting a six-piece rock band. LIZZIE is rage, sex, betrayal, and bloody murder. LIZZIE is American mythology set to a blistering rock score. LIZZIE is a new American musical with a sound owing less to Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber than to Bikini Kill, the Runaways, and Heart.

Thru - Feb 5, 2017

Lizzie the musical Reviews

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DCTheatreScene - Recommended

"...Along with the provocative costumes for the quartet of ladies, the playing space at Anacostia Playhouse has been transformed into club space, bathed in black and red, open enough to allow for the performers to fill the space with their punk-rock skullduggery. Adding to the club atmosphere, and providing vibrant punctuation is Katie McCreary's vibrant lighting design. Kenny Neal's well-balanced sound design boosts up the power vocals of the singers."

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- Jeffrey Walker

BroadwayWorld - Recommended

"...Just in time for those winter, presidential inaugural blues, Pinky Swear Productions comes along offering the ultimate rock-scream therapy session with Lizzie, a musical dedicated to America's most famous real-life axe-murderer. Not for the faint-of heart, this is a musical that by rights should be featured in this Saturday's women's march, a reminder that women are perfectly capable of getting in their digs (or whacks, as the case may be) when pushed to the edge."

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- Andrew White

Lizzie the musical at Anacostia Playhouse