Arsenic and Old Lace at Norris Center for the Performing Arts

"Arsenic and Old Lace" is the farcical tale of drama critic Mortimer Brewster, who must decide whether to go through with his recent betrothal after discovering that his two sweet maiden aunts have been murdering lonely male lodgers by poisoning them with a glass of homemade elderberry wine laced with arsenic. Adding to the mayhem is their delusional brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt, and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and his long-lost, criminally crazy sibling, Jonathon, who shows up after undergoing radical plastic surgery to conceal his identity, and now resembles horror-film actor Boris Karloff.