The Cat and the Canary

November 7–22, 2025 | Irving Arts Center

A Mystery by John Willard

Directed by Dennis Canright

Twenty years after his death, the family of Ambrose West arrive to his castle on the Hudson to attend a reading of his will at midnight. His will designates that Annabelle West is his sole heir if there is no indication that she suffers from insanity. Should she be unsound of mind, a second will is to be opened naming a different heir. The family endeavors to unbalance Annabelle with tales of lunatics, murders, and death strikes. Everyone among the possible heirs is suspected, but not until the final fall of the curtain is the extraordinary mystery solved. A chilling mystery unfolds for an eccentric family trapped in a night of terror and suspicion.