American Psycho. Music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik, book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Shotgun Players presents

American
Psycho

Patrick Bateman is young, handsome, and ridiculously successful. He’s got impeccable taste and unquenchable desires. Patrick and his elite Wall Street cadre spend their time getting into hip restaurants, exclusive clubs, and designer labels. But late at night, Patrick indulges in darker errands, and his mask of sanity is starting to slip. Sexy and psychopathic, American Psycho is a ruthless and daring skewering of American capitalism set in the epicenter of excess. And it’s a musical!

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Special performances

Nov 27–28, Dec 2–3

Pay-What-You-Can Previews

Pay what you can for any of our four preview performances.

Opening Night

Sat, Dec 4 at 7 PM

Thu, Dec 9 · 7 PM

MAD Night

25 and under? $15 gets you a ticket, pizza and a beer (21+) or soda. MAD Nights sell out, so don’t wait. Bring your ID.

Sun, Dec 12 · 2 PM

Haptic Tour & Audio Description

For guests who are blind or have low vision: a pre-show touch tour of the space, costumes and props, plus live audio description on headsets.

Sun, Dec 19 · 2 PM

Masked-Audience Performance

All audience members, ushers and staff wear masks. Performers are unmasked on stage.

Thursdays & Sundays

Post-Show Conversations

Stick around after every Thursday and Sunday performance, starting December 5, for a conversation about the play.

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From the critics

A carnal carnival

So smooth, so rich, so ruthless. A carnal carnival of song and dance.

The New York Times

Sheik’s super-smart original songs match up with the show’s emphasis on the superficial, materialistic pursuits of the era.

Variety

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A limited number of onstage seats puts you right in the middle of the action. Look for onstage seats when you choose your tickets.

Pencil sketch of the American Psycho set at the Ashby Stage, with rows of onstage seats beside the playing area — Onstage seating for *American Psycho*

Seating plan for American Psycho at the Ashby Stage, showing onstage seats on both sides of the stage in front of the regular audience rows — *American Psycho* seat map

Listen to the music

An ’80s synth-pop score

The score is an amalgam of things that are specifically and sonically from that time, like using drum machines and synthesizers that were popular in the mid- to late ’80s. Very kind of specific things that would have been used in dance music tracks of the era. But I also combine that with much more modern technology… It’s an amalgam of EDM sounds of the ’80s mixed with contemporary.

Duncan Sheik, composer & lyricist

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