You Can't Take it With You

Everyone in Grandpa Vanderhoff’s family does exactly as he pleases.

Which is exactly why things will go wrong at the Vanderhoff home in this weekend’s production of “You Can’t Take It With You.”

The play opens at the La Conner School auditorium on Friday night at 7:30 p.m., with two additional shows on Saturday at 2 and at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door or reserved by calling 466-3171.

The year is 1937, the place, a quiet neighborhood in New York City. “Penny,” played by Maggie Powell, writes plays and paints portraits — badly. Penny’s husband “Paul,” Seth Schu...