Although “Ghost” is in the title of one new play opening this weekend in Shawnee County and “Murder” is in the name of the other, there are more laughs than scares in both stage productions.
A Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy youth production of “The Canterville Ghost,” Darwin Reid Payne’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short story, will run through Oct. 16 in Oldfather Theatre at TCT, 3028 S.W. 8th, while Auburn Community Theater will offer Monk Ferris’ “Let’s Murder Marsha” through Oct. 16 as its final production at the Auburn Community Center, 121