What happens when “the acidic prince of impolitic wits–spoiled, sentimental, epithet-spouting Sheridan Whiteside”* slips on the ice on Mr. and Mrs. Stanley's doorstep in Mesalia, Ohio, and is forced to convalesce in their home? This is how Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's riotous comedy begins, with the celebrated, cantankerous critic, Sheridan Whiteside taking over the Stanley's household and turning it into his personal kingdom and the Stanley family into his personal servants. From there it's just one madcap surprise after another, from penguins and octopus to visitors based on such real-life characters as Noel Coward and Harpo Marx. The original production was an immediate hit, and 72 years later the play remains one of the most‐frequently revived of all American comedies.

VTC's production, directed by Marilyn Tullgren, features David Peck as Sheldon Whiteside, Melinda McCreven as Maggie Cutler, CJ Cummings as Lorraine Sheldon, and Samuel Murphy as Bert Jefferson. The show opens at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston, on April 23, and runs for two weekends, through May 2.

For more information about the play, click on "The Man Who Came to Dinner," above, under Current Season.

*Mike Batistick, in The New York Observer