Arsenic and Old Lace
By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Jonathan Silverstein
Monday, February 24, 2020
Join Keen Company for a 20th Anniversary Benefit Reading of this classic smash-hit comedy featuring an all-star cast! In Arsenic and Old Lace, we meet two charming but not so innocent spinsters who have been poisoning lonely old men, their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, their nephew who looks strangely like Boris Karloff, and poor Mortimer who does his best to control his family’s antics just long enough to announce his engagement. Revisit this epic farce starring Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit, Keen’s A Walk in the Woods), Marsha Mason (four time Academy Award Nominee, Keen's I Never Sang For My Father), Michael Urie (Torch Song, The Government Inspector, Buyer & Cellar), and many more!
Tickets to this benefit broadcast support Keen Company’s Hear/Now audio theater season, as well as Keen’s Playwrights Lab for mid-career writers, and Keen Teens which serves students in all five boroughs of NYC.
Your ticket to this special fundraising event underwrites Keen Company’s 20th Season, the Keen Playwrights Lab fostering mid-career writers, and our Keen Teens program providing free theater education to students in all five boroughs of New York City.
Meet the Artists
Joseph Kesselring (Playwright)
Jonathan Silverstein (Director)
Major Attaway (Officer Brophy)
Ian Bedford (Lieutenant Rooney)
Kathleen Chalfant (Martha Brewster)
Chuck Cooper (Rev. Dr. Harper)
Lilli Cooper (Elaine Harper)
Gabriel Ebert (Officer O'Hara)
Marsha Mason (Abby Brewster)
Steven Rattazzi (Teddy Brewster)
Hal Robinson (Mr. Witherspoon)
Reg Rogers (Dr. Einstein)
Graham Rowat (Jonathan Brewster)
Jay Russell (Mr. Gibbs)
Kyle Sherman (Officer Klein)
Michael Urie (Mortimer Brewster)