Arsenic and Old Lace

By Joseph Kesselring
Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service

Director: CherylAnn Welch
Co-Producers: CherylAnn Welch & Marcus Hatch
Location: Belmont Town Hall, 455 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
Performances: April 20, April 21, April 27, April 28 

Theater critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Aunts 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! Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family