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Pandemic Players: You Can’t Take it With You
November 27, 2021 @ 3:00 pm
Pandemic Players: You Can’t Take It With You
The Schoolhouse Theater’s Pandemic Players’, the longest regularly performing virtual theatre company in the country, weekly (impromptu) play readings continue with George S. Kaufmann and Moss Hart’s 1936 comedy in three acts You Can’t Take It With You.
About You Can’t Take It With You
You Can’ Take It With You won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was adapted for the screen in 1938 where it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The story follows a off-beat New York City family that includes a patriarch who is a tax cheat, a writer of salacious plays, a basement fireworks manufacturer, a candy maker, a xylophonist, an amateur printer and the family’s candidate for normalcy, a daughter who has an office job.
About the Schoolhouse Theater
The Schoolhouse Theater, founded by Lee Pope in 1983, is Westchester’s oldest non-profit Actor’s Equity theatre. The theatre, dedicated to producing new plays, has seen no less than seven of its shows moved to Off-Broadway. They have produced works by Jules Feiffer and Tina Howe. It’s current Artistic Director, Bram Lewis founded and ran The Phoenix Theatre in Purchase where he worked with Alan Arkin, Ellen Burstyn, Horton Foote, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Frances Sternhagen, Horton Foote and Elain Stritch among others.
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