He acted in Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's play, "You Can't Take It With You," at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut with Serina Grant, Laurie Kennedy, Staats Cotsworth, Carol Teitel, Emery Battis, John Braden, Tom Atkins and Patricia Pearcy in the cast. Arvin Brown was director. Kert Lundell was set designer. James Edmund Brady was costume designer. Judy Rasmuson was lighting designer.