Current Season
You Can’t Take It With You
By George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
October 4th - 12th
The family of Martin Vanderhof lives “just around the corner from Columbia Universitybut don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa, as Martin is more commonly known, is the paterfamilias of a large and extended family: His daughter, Penny, who fancies herself a romance novelist; her husband, Paul, an amateur fireworks expert; their daughter, Alice, an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s eccentricitieswhich include a xylophone player/leftist leaflet printer, an untalented ballerina, a couple on relief, and a ballet master exiled from Soviet Russia. When Alice falls for her boss, Tony, a handsome scion of Wall Street, she fears that their two familiesso unlike in manner, politics, and financeswill never come together. During a disastrous dinner party, Alice’s worst fears are confirmed. Her prospective in-laws are humiliated in a party game, fireworks explode in the basement, and the house is raided by the FBI. Frustrated and upset, Alice intends to run away to the country, until Grandpa and Co.playing the role of Cupidmanage not only to bring the happy couple together, but to set Tony’s father straight about the true priorities in life. After all, why be obsessed with money? You can’t take it with you. . . .
Appropriate
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Nov 22 - Dec 7
Appropriate follows the dysfunctional Lafayette family as they return to a decaying plantation mansion in Arkansas to battle over their recently deceased father's inheritance. Soon after the discovery of a relic buried deep in the recess of their family's past, decades of resentment burst through centuries of historical sin.
The Imaginary Invalid
By Molière
April 25 - May 3
In the outrageously funny masterpiece The Imaginary Invalid, the hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills. But she's in love with someone else. Soon the whole household joins in her madcap scheme to save true love and give Argan's doctors a dose of their own medicine.