The Brook Hill Dinner Theatre, featuring Joseph Kesselring’s classic play, Arsenic and Old Lace, will be presented Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 29- 31, on the Brook Hill campus.

Premium tables for eight are available on the first three rows and range in price from $250 to $500. All other seats are $20 for adults and $15 for students. Seating will begin at 6 p.m. each evening. The meal will feature oven-roasted Rock Cornish game hens with seasoned potatoes and desserts.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling the school at (903) 894-5000 or by e-mailing the director, Glenn Ballard at gballard@brookhill.org.

The play is a farcical dark comedy based on a classic script that was made into a movie in 1944, directed by Frank Capra. The movie starred Cary Grant and Raymond Massey. The story revolves around two old spinster sisters (Abby and Martha Brewster) who have turned the family home into a boarding house for elderly gentlemen.

Their favorite “charity” is to help lonely old men to their ultimate peaceful end by poisoning them with homemade elderberry wine. Their nephew Teddy Brewster, who thinks he is President Theodore Roosevelt, is digging the Panama Canal in their basement and he buries the old men there thinking they are victims of the yellow fever epidemic.

Another nephew, Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic for the local paper and when he discovers the aunt’s pastime, he does everything he can to protect them from the law. Meanwhile, a third nephew who is also a psychopath, Jonathan Brewster (who looks very much like Boris Karloff), shows up trying to hide from the authorities who are hot on his trail. The laughs are compounded by the relationship between Mortimer Brewster and his fiancée, Elaine Harper, who just happens to be the daughter of the Presbyterian minister who lives next door to the Brewster home.