Queens Seek

PRESS RELEASE

January 28, 2009

Title of Show: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Date of First Performance: February 26, 2009

Date of Last Performance: March 8, 2009

Venue Name: Bowne Street Community Church, which is 2 blocks from the Main St. Station of the 7 traiin, three blocks from the LIRR Main St. Station, and has parking on site.

Venue Address: 143-11 Roosevelt Ave in Flushing

Performance Schedule: February 26th - March 8th (Thursday - Sunday evening performances.)
Thursday, February 26th at 7:30PM
Friday, February 27th at 1:00PM and 7:30PM
Saturday, February 28th at 7:30PM
Sunday, March 1st at 6:00PM
Thursday, March 5th at 7:30PM
Friday, March 6th at 7:30PM
Saturday, March 7th at 7:30PM
Sunday, March 8th at 6:00PM

Ticket Price: $15 general admission; $10 for students and seniors

How to buy tickets: Call or order from Smarttix.com at 212.868.4444. Group sales call Nanette Asher at 718.357.3842

Producer or Producing Company: Queens Shakespeare, Inc

Author/Creator of the show: Joseph Kesselring

Synopsis: Queens Shakespeare Inc. presents Joseph Kesselring's classic comedy/thriller/farce revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a theater-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff.

Directed by Lawrence Lesher
Production Stage Manager / Costume Design: Tara Mary Schmitt
Production Manager / Set / Lighting Design: Jonathan Emerson

The show features:

Nanette Asher, Timothy J. Cox, Jonathan Emerson, Matthew Harris, Brendon Hunt, Meg Mark, Danny Mittermeyer, Greg Mocker, Sean MacBride Murray, Tom Patella, Bill Rapp and Pauline Walsh