A suspense-filled thriller by Edward Chodorov based on a story by Hugh Walpole.

Mary Herries is a dignified, aristocratic women who lives quietly in her London home. She has a passion for art and fine furniture, and even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange, young painter named Abbott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she suspect that this conman’s only interest is to covet everything she has.

This play was adapted for the screen in both 1935 and 1951.

November 9-11, 2023

Grandpa Vanderhof and his wacky family, the Sycamores, have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University in New York for many years. This family (and their friends) are a madcap group of eccentrics, marching to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing a myriad of plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons. Things like stress, jobs, and paying taxes to the government are for other people, not for them! But when practical young Alice Sycamore becomes engaged to her company’s Vice President Tony Kirby, the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan must straighten up to meet the new in-laws. Disaster ensues when the Kirbys arrive at the wrong time and, despite the best laid plans, see Alice’s family in all of its crazy glory. The evening ends with everyone in the house getting arrested, and Alice ending the engagement. It isn’t until Grandpa’s wise speech to Mr. Kirby about the importance of living life to the fullest that the two families find a way to accept each other, and love conquers all. You Can’t Take It With You is a madcap, idealistic comedy that reinforces the idea that you can only live life to the fullest by doing whatever makes you happy.

November 17-19, 2022

We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously “acceptable” roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other brother—these require no further description or amplification here. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is a ready-made comedy hit.

November 18-20

Cooper’s Catsup Radio Hour

Featuring the play “Babbling Brook”

Back in the day, before computers and television, families would gather around the radio for some good old homespun entertainment. With all the restrictions we are experiencing today, we thought maybe going back to those days would be fun! When we discovered Mr. Cooper’s father had written over a dozen radio plays dating back to the 1930s the idea became a reality!

November 19-21, FRCS proudly presents “Cooper’s Catsup Radio Hour” featuring the live radio play, “Babbling Brook” by Dr. John Cooper, Jr. This play has all the adventure and romance and drama of most country westerns, only without real horses.

Old Pop Whitcomb bequeathed the 3-Bar Ranch to his two granddaughters from PA. The ranch hands fear that the ranch will be turned into a Dude Ranch!

This charming play is rich with cowboys, damsels in distress, and, of course, an outlaw, so there’s something for everyone!

 melodramatic farce in three acts, written by George Batson.

An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange tumble-down place near the ocean, and gets what she bargains for—plus a good deal besides. The imperturbable librarian wanders through mysterious situations and thunderstorms, she meets with drama and comedy, the living and the dead, and somehow manages to emerge at the end none the worse for her extraordinary experience.

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