You know…I think Arsenic and Old Lace might have had an outsized influence on my life.

I saw it for the first time, I think, on stage at my high school, the very first semester of my freshman year. I distinctly remember falling out of my chair I was laughing so hard. And I think it convinced me to do theater that very next semester. I wish I could remember the teacher’s name. She stopped doing the theater program the next year, but I got her that second semester for an intro class. I got seri...