Classic comedy set for Oak Street Playhouse

Sisters Martha, left, and Abby Brewster, right, portrayed by Becki Jordan and Coylee Bryan, respectively, pour some elderberry wine for Mr. Witherspoon, portrayed by Denise Frye, in the classic comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace," which opens Friday at Oak Street Playhouse. / Photo by Randy Forester Sisters Martha, left, and Abby Brewster, right, portrayed by Becki Jordan and Coylee Bryan, respectively, pour some elderberry wine for Mr. Witherspoon, portrayed by Denise Frye, in the classic comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace," which opens Friday at Oak Street Playhouse. / Photo by Randy Forester

By Staff Report September 19, 2018 3 min read

If you go

› What: “Arsenic and Old Lace”› Where: Flo Summit Theatre, Oak Street Playhouse, Oak and Lindsay streets (in First-Centenary United Methodist Church)› When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21-22, 27-29; 2 p.m. Sept. 23 and 30› Admission: $15 adults, $12 senior adults and groups, $10 students› For more information: 800-838-3006 (option 1)› Websites: www.brownpapertickets.com (type in Oak Street Playhouse) or www.oakstreetplayhouse.com

There’s never enough time, is there?

What with interviewing renters for their extra rooms, maiden sisters Abby and Martha just haven’t had the opportunity to take care of everything they need to do.

Like moving dead bodies, for instance.

Their nephew, Mortimer Brewster, learns that the hard way in the 1939 Joseph Kesselring comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace,” which opens Friday, Sept. 21, at Oak Street Playhouse and runs for seven performances in the venue at First-Centenary United Methodist Church.