Title: Arsenic and Old Lace
Content: Arsenic and Old Lace (play), a 1941 play by Joseph Kesselring ; Arsenic and Old Lace (film), a 1944 film adaptation directed by Frank Capra ; Arsenic and Old Lace, a 1955 television adaptation for the anthology series The Best of Broadway ; Arsenic & Old Lace, a 1962 Hallmark Hall of Fame television film ; Arsenic and Old Lace, a 1969 ABC Movie of the Week remake directed by Robert Scheerer ; Arsenic and Old Lace (cocktail), a cocktail made with gin ; In Marvel Comics' Runaways, the character Gertrude Yorkes dubs herself and her dinosaur "Arsenic" and "Old Lace", respectively Arsenic and Old Lace may refer to:
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
Content: Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster ; Priscilla Lane as Elaine Brewster ; Josephine Hull as Aunt Abby Brewster ; Jean Adair as Aunt Martha Brewster ; Raymond Massey as Jonathan Brewster ; Peter Lorre as Dr. Herman Einstein ; John Alexander as "Teddy Roosevelt" Brewster ; Jack Carson as Officer Patrick O'Hara ; John Ridgely as Officer Sanders ; Edward McNamara as Police Sgt. Brophy ; James Gleason as Police Lt. Rooney ; Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Witherspoon ; Grant Mitchell as Reverend Harper ; Vaughan Glaser as Judge Cullman ; Chester Clute as Dr. Gilchrist ; Edward McWade as Mr. Gibbs - the old man ; Garry Owen as Taxicab Driver ; Charles Lane as first reporter ; Hank Mann as Second reporter with camera ; Spencer Charters as Marriage License Clerk 
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Content: Jean Adair as Martha Brewster ; John Alexander as Teddy Brewster ; Wyrley Birch as The Rev. Dr. Harper ; Helen Brooks as Elaine Harper ; Bruce Gordon as Officer Klein ; Henry Herbert as Mr. Gibbs ; Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster ; Allyn Joslyn as Mortimer Brewster ; Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster ; William Parke as Mr. Witherspoon ; John Quigg as Officer Brophy ; Anthony Ross as Officer O'Hara ; Edgar Stehli as Dr. Einstein ; Victor Sutherland as Lieutenant Rooney  The opening night cast consisted of: 
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
Content:  Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, and Peter Lorre. Josephine Hull and Jean Adair portray the Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, respectively. Hull and Adair, as well as John Alexander (who played Teddy Brewster), were reprising their roles from the 1941 stage production. Hull and Adair both received an eight-week leave of absence from the stage production, which was still running, but Karloff did not, as he was an investor in the stage production and its main draw. The entire film was shot within those eight weeks. The film cost just over $1.2 million of a $2 million budget to produce.
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
Content:  "nice" gentlemen while Jonathan's victim is a stranger and a "foreigner". Jonathan also declares his intention to kill Mortimer. Elaine is impatient to leave on their honeymoon but is concerned about Mortimer's increasingly odd behavior as he frantically attempts to control the situation. He tries unsuccessfully to alert the bumbling police to Jonathan's presence. To draw attention away from his aunts and deprive them of their willing but uncomprehending accomplice, Mortimer tries to file paperwork to have Teddy legally committed to a mental asylum. Worrying that the genetic predisposition for mental illness resides within him ("Insanity runs in my family; it practically 
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Content:   The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around the Brewster family, descended from the Mayflower settlers but now composed of  maniacs, most of them homicidal. The hero, Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, murderous family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves, Elaine Harper, who lives next door and is the daughter of the local minister. 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 
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Content:  Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the subsequent film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was produced by Lindsay and Crouse and directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the play moved to the Hudson Theatre, closing there on June 17, 1944, having played 1,444 performances. The West End production - directed by Marcel Varnel and produced at London's Strand Theatre - enjoyed a similarly long run. Opening on December 23, 1942 and closing on March 2, 1946, it totalled 1,337 performances. Of the 12 plays written by Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace was much the most successful. According to the opening night review in The New York Times, the play was "so funny that none of us will ever forget it."
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Content: 'Arsenic and Old Lace' with Betty Garrett, Carole Cook & Michael Lee Stever.jpgArsenic and Old Lace resurfaced in 1998 with an Oklahoma City based revival from UCO Theatricals University Of Central Oklahoma starring Betty Garrett, Carole Cook and Michael Stever. ; A recent revival was mounted in February 2011 at the Dallas Theater Center starring Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh. ; A Hebrew version was staged at the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv with the opening night on October 29, 2012, with Lea Koenig and Dvora Kaydar in the main roles. ; On November 19, 2016, Independent Theatre Pakistan opened their new season with a rendition of the performance at Ali Auditorium in Lahore, Pakistan. ; The Maitland Repertory Theatre in Maitland, Australia, put on a production of the play from October 9th to 27th 2019 by director Colin Delane. 
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
Content:  Arsenic and Old Lace was adapted as a half-hour radio play for the November 25, 1946, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Boris Karloff and Eddie Albert. A one-hour adaptation was broadcast on January 25, 1948 on the Ford Theatre, with Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, and John Alexander reprising their roles.
Title: Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Content:  believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims; he thinks that they died of yellow fever); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an 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 (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played on Broadway by Karloff). The film adaptation follows the same basic plot, with a few minor changes. The character Mortimer Brewster says of his family’s history that it is as if "...Strindberg wrote Hellzapoppin."

Question: where does arsenic and old lace take place?
Answer: Brooklyn, New York.