Arsenic & Old Lace at Salt & Light Theatre for the Performing Arts

"Arsenic & Old Lace" revolves around drama critic Mortimer Brewster, whose 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. Originally written by Joseph Kesselring for the stage, audiences may best know this show by the classic film starred Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a classic dark comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.