{"id":218,"date":"2011-10-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/atc-arsenic-and-old-lace-23-27-oct-2012\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T22:06:11","slug":"atc-arsenic-and-old-lace-23-27-oct-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/atc-arsenic-and-old-lace-23-27-oct-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ATC: Arsenic and Old Lace (23-27 Oct 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">Quotes about other productions of this play:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cA delightful comic concoction.\u201d The Guardian<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cGood macabre fun. The lines are bright. The story is mad.\u201d The New York Times<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t believe that homicidal mania could be such great fun.\u201d The Sun<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1941, New Yorkers were looking for some entertainment to take their minds off of the war in Europe and the growing fear that America would be pulled into it. Broadway gave them exactly what they were looking for: Arsenic and Old Lace. The play became an immediate critical and popular success, running for over 1,000 performances. It also became a hit in England in 1942 as theatergoers who were suffering through post-blitz London lined up for tickets. In 1944, Hollywood produced a film version starring Cary Grant that became a huge box office success.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mortimer is about to propose to his sweetheart when he discovers that his two dear but eccentric aunts poison lonely old bachelors with their elderberry wine and have a number of corpses buried in the cellar. And it gets worse. Throw in one brother who thinks he\u2019s Teddy Roosevelt, another who is a psychopathic killer, plus a slightly intoxicated plastic surgeon, and you\u2019ll be laughing the entire way through.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">For more information:<a href=\"http:\/\/atc.theatreinbrussels.com\/\">http:\/\/atc.theatreinbrussels.com<\/a> <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">This play is presented by special arrangement with ALMO Auteursbureau Antwerp<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/arsenic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"Not Set\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Arsenic and Old Lace\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">written by Joseph Kesselring and directed by Adam Brown<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Palais de Beaux-Arts, 23 Rue Ravensteinstraat, 1000 Brussels\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">23-27 October 2012 at 8pm\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2012-2013","category-atc-groups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/arsenic2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Lbx2-3w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 14:30:48","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}