NEW YORK—Offering some gentle life lessons, a bit of romance, and a whole lot of fun, You Can’t Take It With You, the 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, makes a triumphant return to Broadway.
The world is full of eccentric families, but the one at the New York home of Martin Vanderhof (James Earl Jones), comprised of three generations, is in a class by itself.
Martin is the patriarch of the clan, a man who abruptly quit his job 35 years earlier, preferring instead to take the time to enjoy life.

Penelope (Kristine Nielsen) embraces her father, Martin Vanderhof (James Earl Jones), the patriarch of a happy household of freethinkers and artists. Joan Marcus