The Central New York Playhouse ends its 2022 season with “You Can’t Take It With You,’ a reliable “old chestnut” by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, that despite its rather dated pace, will satisfy most theatergoers with a well-equipped (code for lots of props and cushy furniture, etc.) single set evoking a middle-class, New York existence in the mid-1930′s, familiar family relationships and issues, and enough quirky characters to let loose an abundance of domestic chaos to entertain the most comedically jaded among us.
Directed by Natasia White, this well-worn play had over 800 performances on Broadway in 1936, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was made into a film one year later starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, among other film and stage luminaries.