Arsenic & Old Lace at Alchemy

Poisoners never go out of style – this timeless hit tells the story of two otherwise charming elderly ladies determined to get rid of all their lonely lodgers in the name of mercy.

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 dark comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.

Arsenic and Old Lace premiered on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941. It was produced by the renowned duo of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and directed by Bretaigne Windust. The original Broadway cast included Jean Adair, Josephine Hull, Allyn Joslyn and Boris Karloff. Frank Capra’s 1944 film adaptation of the play starred Cary Grant, with Adair and Hull reprising their performances as Mortimer’s murderous aunts.

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