Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesselring, was written in 1939. The 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 discover a shocking family secret! Between a brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and another brother who wants to kill him, and his hesitancy about his upcoming marriage, Mortimor just might run off to the Panama Canal! Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.