Just in time for Halloween, the Averitt Center for the Arts presents a black comedy about a twisted family that would give the famous Addams a run for their money. "Arsenic and Old Lace" will run in the Emma Kelly Theater on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday at 2 p.m. When Mortimer Brewster, a newly engaged theater critic, drops by his family home to tell his doting aunts about his upcoming nuptials, the sweet spinsters reveal that they have picked up a new hobby: assisting elderly men in an expedited trip to the afterlife and burying the bodies in the basement. What follows is a frantic weekend of cover-up exploits as Mortimer tries to keep his aunts, homicidal brother Jonathan and delusional brother Teddy (who thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt) away from his fiancée, Elaine, so she won't become embroiled in the escalating insanity - and hilarity.
Arsenic and Old Lace brings dark comedy to the Averitt
Show opens Friday at 7:30 p.m.


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