'Arsenic and Old Lace' opens Friday

Theater Arts Guild offers "Arsenic and Old Lace" for three weekends starting Sept. 27. A 1944 film, famously directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, the play opened on Broadway in 1941.

The show is cast as "a spooky (and hilarious) tale" for the Halloween season.

What is drama critic Mortimer Brewster to make of the corpse in his elderly aunts' window seat? Then he learns – spoiler alert – they killed him!

There is the brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and the brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police. Meanwhile Mortimer is not sure about getting married. Forget about toasts: the wine is poisoned.

This classic dark comedy underscores the only thing more deadly than poison is family.

The 1939 play by Joseph Kesselring was his most successful.

Directed by Mike Jenkins. Produced by Ria Peth, Dan Toomey and Brett Madden.

Times and tickets: ­lincolntheatre.org.

Source: Lincoln Theatre