Broken Leg Theater

is proud to announce our 2024/2025 Season!

Tickets for our shows will go on sale approximately two months in advance of each production.

Ticket sale announcements will be made on our Facebook page.

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Presented by Broken Leg Theater

Adult Cast Play

Directed by: Heather Harper and Paul James

@ Thomas Dale West Campus in Chester, Va.

A comedy by Joseph Kesselring. Set in the early 1940s, Arsenic tells the story of newspaper drama critic Mortimer Brewster, a normal, run‐of‐the‐mill guy who is anxious to marry his fiancée, the girl‐next‐door and a minister’s daughter, Elaine. But standing solidly between Mortimer and matrimonial bliss is the wackiest, weirdest family tree that ever grew! His two sweet aunts, Abby and Martha have developed murder as their favorite hobby. Out of a twisted sense of sympathy, they poison lonely old men with a mixture of arsenic and elderberry wine and then bury them in the cellar. Cousin Teddy sports pince‐nez and a handlebar moustache and regularly charges up San Juan Hill! And horrid brother Jonathan has just arrived from an asylum with a new face (ala Boris Karloff) and a sinister side‐kick named Dr. Einstein. It’s “Home Sweet Homicide” as Mortimer tries to thwart the police (a kindly but goofy bunch), conceal a corpse, curtail anymore killing, and convince Elaine that a wedding with a man who is drowning in such a murky gene pool would lead to nothing but woe. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic comic melodrama.

February 13th – February 16th, 2025

March 13th – March 16th, 2025

May 8th – May 11th, 2025