Mr. Vanderhof, "Grandpa," is the head of a household of unusual personalities whom we might call a "crazy family." Neither the 1936 world in turmoil nor the depression interfere with their happiness Enter into this, the family of Tony Kirby Jr., who is in love with Martin Vanderhof's granddaughter. The planned meeting date of these remarkably opposite clans has been somehow mistaken, so the Kirbys arrive one night early to find the household at the height of doing its own thing, which includes living room ballet, snake-charming, Roman discus throwing, fireworks experimentation and the like -- ingredients of classic comedy!

What happens to a writer when his novel hits the bestseller list? Brooklyn Boy is an insightful and witty look at the career of Eric Weiss whose success comes at a time when his life is beginning to unravel. His wife has left him, his father is in the hospital and his childhood friend thinks he has sold himself to the devil. Pulitzer Prize winning author Donald Margulies investigates all this with a dramatic but laugh-out-loud comedy that combines the vintage themes of "returning to ethnic roots" with mid-life crisis and redemption.

Atkinson in the NY Times called it "a stunning drama... It is the basic truth. In a plantation house, the family is celebrating the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The tone is gay. But the mood is somber. For a number of old evils poison the gaiety -- sins of the past, greedy hopes for the future, a desperate eagerness not to believe in the truths that surround them... The truth invariably terrifies them. As the expression of a brooding point of view about life, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is limpid and effortless. As theatre, it is superb."