STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 6/26/16- ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Today in 1986, Arsenic and Old Lace opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre where it ran for 221 performances. Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who …