‘You Can’t Take It With You’ won 1937 Pulitzer Prize

It’s the age-old story of love, family, and accidentally blowing up the house with illegal fireworks.

In “You Can’t Take It With You,” a 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the fireworks fly when two polar opposite families – one uptight, one anything but – are compelled to get along in the name of love.

Adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie just two years after premiering on stage, “You Can’t Take It With You” marked the first time in history that a Broadway play and a film based on that play ran simultaneously. It became one of the most successful plays of modern times, proving so popular among educational theatre groups that it has been one of the 10 most produced plays every year since amateur rights became available in 1939.

The M State Fine Arts department will be presenting “You Can’t Take It With You,” the department’s spring 2024 play, over the first two weekends of March at the Waage Theater on the college’s Fergus Falls campus. There will be evening shows at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, March 1-2, as well as at 7:30 p.m. on March 8-9, and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on March 10.

Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door for the general public, $5 for non-M State students, and free for M State students, faculty and staff and children under the age of 5. 

Tickets are available at the door shortly before each performance or in advance at the Fergus Falls Campus Store and online at www.mstate.universitytickets.com. The campus store may be reached at (218) 736-1556.