Kaufman and Hart's classic screwball comedy centers on the wonderfully eccentric Sycamore family, who have each abandoned conventional careers to pursue whatever hobby makes them happy, from amateur fireworks manufacturing to ballet to playwriting, all under one delightfully chaotic roof. Complications arise when the family's more conventional daughter falls in love with the son of her stuffy, wealthy employer, and the two radically different families are forced together for an excruciating dinner party. The play's warm, anarchic celebration of individuality and living life on one's own terms, regardless of what 'respectable' society expects, gives its comedy real heart beneath the zaniness. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and remains one of the most beloved American comedies for its infectious, big-hearted eccentricity.

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