HIGHEST RATING!
”Starring Adam KuveNiemann in a career-defining performance… Oakland Theater Project triumphs again”
– Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] wildly imaginative one-man montage of U.S. history’s anti-heroes… Through KuveNiemann’s brilliant embodiment of 14 characters, we understand how class injustices have created massive alienation from the American Dream.”
– Jenyth Jo, Theatrius

“[A] galvanizing production… The breathtakingly virtuosic Adam KuveNiemann, working with director Weston Scott, incarnates every figure, switching back and forth among them with a degree of manic energy that constantly threatens to boil over… offers deep insights not only into the work itself, but also into its subject matter”
– Joshua Kosman, On a Pacific Aisle

“Brilliantly staged… combining outstanding direction by Weston Scott and a career-defining performance by Adam KuveNiemann… They have a winner here, and although it’s only late March, this may be the best play and performance of the year.”
– Steve Murray, BroadwayWorld

★★★★★
“A STAR IS BORN! Adam KuveNiemann’s virtuoso performance as fourteen characters is astonishing… Director Weston Scott finds all the necessary contrast, nuance, and excitement to make this work… brilliant… absurdly ambitious… It’s unforgettable”
– Charlsie-Kern Kruger, TheatreStorm

“Magnificent… Assassins will challenge your emotions, your heart, and your mind in unexpected ways. This is one of the most well crafted works to hit a Bay Area stage in some time.”
– Vita Hewitt, Midbrow

“Watching the play, you might wonder afresh what kind of privileged man would prefer to, for decades, secretly bed a woman in bondage to him rather than mate openly with someone who could choose him freely. Adam KuveNiemann’s performance gives a keen answer. His Jefferson is a baby. He’s cantankerous, blubbering, then tyrannical when he gets to exercise his power… He’s our founding ideals and sins wrapped up in one little man, and KuveNiemann shrugs that burden off with a smile that implies, ‘Someone else will deal with the mess of me.’” -Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle

“As Tom and Mike, Adam KuveNiemann exudes the privilege and arrogance we associate with Jefferson.” -Chuck Louden, Stage & Cinema

“Park’s script shines and Gardner’s direction is a joy to watch. elevates the show merging past and present seamlessly. Locals Emily Newsome (Luce/Sally) and Adam KuveNiemann (Mike/Thomas) lead a stellar cast.” -Steve Murray, Broadway World

“Gardner has a great cast at work here, each doing double duty as the actors and the roles they play in the play-within-the-play. Newsome and KuveNiemann are outstanding in the lead roles and they get excellent support from the entire cast.” -Harry Duke, North Bay Stage & Screen

“Adam KuveNiemann is a volatile bundle of hostile energy as Jason, his face covered with neo-Nazi prison tattoos… It packs a truly devastating wallop.” - Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News

“Director Carter ratchets up the anger and anxiety as lives are destroyed leading to a violent confrontation that sends the boys to prison.” - Steve Murray, Broadway World

“The real breakout performance here is Niemann’s… Niemann can talk about a Subway foot-long sandwich as if it’s an IV drip and he’s a human vegetable sucking at it for a last chance at life… Niemann must perform paroxysm after paroxysm, and he mines orchestral range from the action as if it’s an instrument; no two fits are alike.” - Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle

“Played with compellingly comic manic energy by Adam Niemann, vice principal Ricky is anxious and awkward, weak-willed and desperate to please in a way that’s terribly off-putting to everybody around him.” - Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News

“As the ever-equivocating Ricky, Adam Niemann is a man possessed. He inhabits Ricky’s emotions from the base of his spine to the impassioned spittle that flies out of his enraged mouth. At [one] point, Niemann wasn’t just acting. He was channeling this man’s spirit off the page and onto the stage.” - Jeffrey Edalatpour, SF Weekly

“Lushly bearded KuveNeimann creates a smart, skittish, and quirky bohemian writer, with a deep but fleeting connection to the boy… a charming story that’s guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye. True stage magic.” - Barry David Horowitz, Theatrius

“Extraordinary performances are delivered by KuveNiemann as the odd author and NCTC newcomer Henry Halkyard as the deeply distressed Freddie. White is a father figure Freddie desperately needs and their relationship blooms beautifully under his tutelage.” - Steve Murray, Broadway World

”Adam Niemann delivers [a monologue] in a gripping, near-monotone fashion, yet one full of deeply hidden emotion that leaves the audience (and even Tennessee) barely breathing during its telling.” - Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddys

“Full of facial ticks and looking to the sky to avoid intimacy and contact, Niemann is a heartbreaking creature dying for comfort.” - Steve Murray, Broadway World