WEST MILFORD The classic black comedy, “Arsenic and Old Lace,” will be coming to the West Milford in February. Opening Friday night, Feb. 9, this timeless smash will run for a total of nine performances. Additional performances will be Feb. 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, and 25. The curtain will rise at 8 p.m. for all Friday and Saturday performances and 2 p.m. for all Sunday matinees. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. All performance will be held at the Hillcrest Community Center, 1810 Macopin Road in West Milford. This quintessential farce, written by Joseph Kesserling, originally opened on Broadway in 1939. However, the Frank Capra movie which was released in 1943 starring Cary Grant and Peter Lorre elevated “Arsenic and Old Lace” into an American classic. The play revolves around Mortimer Brewster, a theatre-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with marrying the woman he loves. His family include 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 believes he’s Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home. And there is a criminally murderous brother who has received plastic surgery from alcoholic accomplice Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran), to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff. For information and reservations, call the West Milford Players’ hotline at 973-697-4400.