Arsenic and Old Lace
Schedule
Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
400 Gibson Rd, Athens, TX, United States, Texas 75751 | Athens, TX
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Arsenic and Old Lace, written by Joseph Kesselring, is a dark comedy about Mortimer Brewster, a theater critic who discovers his sweet, elderly aunts, Abby and Martha, are serial killers, poisoning lonely old men with elderberry wine laced with arsenic and burying them in the cellar, all while Mortimer's crazy brother Teddy thinks he's Theodore Roosevelt and helps by burying the bodies in the Panama Canal, leading to chaos when Mortimer's villainous, disfigured brother Jonathan shows up, complicating everything as Mortimer tries to hide the murders and get Teddy committed, only for the aunts to decide they should go to the sanitarium too, offering their latest victim wine as the play ends. Arsenic and Old Lace is under the direction of Ethan Herrin and set to run SepTember 10 - 19.
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