Arsenic & Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring
by Joseph Kesselring
July 31st - August 2nd & 7th - 9th at 7:30pm
August 3rd at 2:00pm
August 3rd at 2:00pm
Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.
adapted from Dramatists Play Service
A Main Stage Production