Arsenic and Old Lace
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Sunday, Oct 13, 2024 2pm
- Saturday, Oct 12, 2024 7:30pm
- Friday, Oct 11, 2024 7:30pm
- Saturday, Oct 5, 2024 7:30pm
- Friday, Oct 4, 2024 7:30pm
Location
Community High School
302 Campbell Ave SE
Details
Can a play about two sweet old ladies who poison and then bury lonely men with no family ties in their basement – with the help of a nephew who thinks he’s President Theodore Roosevelt – be a comedy? Sure it can, when it's playwright Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace, written in 1939 and then turned into a memorable and madcap Cary Grant movie directed by Frank Capra in 1944.
Arsenic and Old Lace is the second play to be staged by Exit, Pursued By A Bear (Bear Theatre for short), downtown Roanoke’s new community theatre, with show dates October 4-5, and Oct. 11-13, with a 7:30pm curtain except for the 2:00 matinee on October 13. Tickets for Arsenic and Old Lace go on sale Friday, September 6 at beartheatre.com.
