Arsenic and Old Lace

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Arsenic and Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Lynn Aronson

Friday, September 12, 2014 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 13, 2014 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:00 PM

Friday, September 19, 2014 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 20, 2014 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 21, 2014 2:00 PM

Friday, September 26, 2014 8:00 PM
Saturday, September 27, 2014 8:00 PM
Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:00 PM

This farcical comedy revolves around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts’ victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein, to conceal his identity – he now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff. This classic, laugh-a-minute comedy is a must for all audiences. It will run from September 12 through September 28, 2014.