The Broadway Players will be performing this black comedy about Mortimer Brewster, a New York drama critic and self-proclaimed bachelor who has recently caved to marriage with long-time sweetheart Elaine Harper. However, the couple's happiness is jeopardized as Mortimer learns that insanity runs in his family. Abby and Martha, his two spinster aunts, have developed a hobby of poisoning lonely old men with wine laced with arsenic, strychnine and cyanide. His two brothers-one who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and the other, a murderer who has recently undergone plastic surgery to disguise his identity with the help of his accomplice Dr. Einstein- attempt to outrun the law and commitment to the Happydale Sanatorium. And you thought your family was crazy.

Enchanted April
Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing
March 18-21, 25-28 performances at 2 p.m., 7 p.m. & 8 p.m.
$8-$14
riverwalktheatre.com, (517) 482-5700

Anyone in Michigan knows the cure for winter blues: a trip to Italy. That is exactly what the housewives in this play decide to do to escape the rainy grey of London in the 1920s. After reading about villas for rent, these four strangers embark on a journey of rejuvenation and tranquility.

It Came From Mars
Williamston Theatre, Williamston
March 31- Apr. 18, performances at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.
$10-$24
williamstontheatre.org, (517) 655-7469

Straight from the stage in Ann Arbor, The Performance Network is bringing Joseph Zettelmaier's play where it belongs: home. After a1939 broadcasting of Orsen Welle's "War of the Worlds," the radio actors of Farlow's Mystery Theater Hour are convinced Martians have invaded Earth. The eccentric group- the washed-up director and his ex-wife, a war hero wannabe, an air-headed actress and a German sound effects expert- prepare to be annihilated. Romances ignite, secret identities are revealed and all out mayhem ensues in this off-the-wall comedy.