The play is a farcical comedy revolving 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 and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff.
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Bent
Nutley Little Theatre (6/14 - 6/29)
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Woe! Misery! Children's Theater
Clifton Arts Center (5/31 - 6/9)
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Choice
McCarter Theatre Center (5/8 - 6/2) | ||
New Jersey Symphony at Marine Park in Red Bank
Marine Park (6/29 - 6/29) | ||
Puppy Pals
Surflight Theatre (7/1 - 7/1) | ||
DIE WALKÜRE by Wagner
Union County Performing Arts Center (7/27 - 7/27) | ||
Warner Bros. Discovery presents Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
Count Basie Center for the Arts (2/14 - 2/14) | ||
Little Mermaid
Surflight Theatre (7/3 - 7/7) | ||
August Wilson's Fences
Crossroads Theatre Company (5/29 - 6/9) | ||
Stones in His Pockets
Cape May Stage (9/11 - 10/20) | ||
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