Arsenic and Old Lace

For years, Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace (1939) has been one of our nation’s most performed plays, presented by countless schools and Community Theater groups. Taproot helps celebrate this chestnut’s 80th birthday party by staging a delightful rendition to open their new season. Though this famous piece is hardly a challenge for our successful Greenwood troupe, the Taproot folks led by Marianne Savell’s able direction, make sure that it provides a wonderful evening of solid Comedy Theater. Savell writes in her program notes about the play, “It’s good. Like, really good.” It is indeed, and as comforting and enjoyable as a warm fire on a mid-winter evening.