Help Solve the Biggest Art Heist In History at Art Heist! | River City Live
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Put your NCIS, CSI and Law & Order skills to use and walk off the quarantine poundage to solve a ripped-from-the-walls, real-life master robbery of thirteen works of art, valued at half a billion dollars. Based on a true story of the world’s biggest art caper,
Art Heist is a true crime walking show where socially distanced groups of 30 -35 will move through five Jacksonville walkable locations to gather clues. The amateur gumshoes interact with a wild group of wily career criminals, slimy con men, rumpled art recovery specialists, a possible inside man, a gentle psychopath, and the larger-than-life but definitely real self-proclaimed Greatest Art Thief of All Time. The show premiered last September at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. The story is based on the biggest art heist in history and took place on March 18, 1990, when two thieves disguised as police officers enter
Can you spot a criminal? Art Heist lets the audience be the detective
Palm Beach Daily News
If you’ve ever dreamed of being a detective or forensic scientist, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has the perfect show for you. Art Heist, an interactive performance produced by Right Angle Entertainment and based on the real-life art theft at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a “true crime walking show” where socially distanced groups move through five walkable locations to gather clues.
The show premieres Thursday and runs through May 16, with tickets starting at $41.50.
The audience will be able to interview a variety of characters adapted from the actual suspect list from the night. This includes the two thieves who on March 18, 1990 entered the museum in the middle of the night disguised as police officers, telling guards they were investigating a disturbance.