This is Our Youth 1996 - Articles Page 37

Opened: October 26, 1996
Closing: November 24, 1996

This is Our Youth - 1996 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

In 1982, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate, pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the '60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. The very last wave of New York City’s '60s-style Liberalism has come of age—and there’s nowhere left to go. In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, THIS IS OUR YOUTH follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era: Warren Straub, a dejected nineteen-year-old who steals fifteen thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, THIS IS OUR YOUTH is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.



by Kenneth Lonergan



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What productions of This is Our Youth have there been?
This is Our Youth has had 3 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 1996, Off-Broadway which opened in 1998 and Broadway which opened in 2014.
What awards has This is Our Youth been nominated for?
This is Our Youth has been nominated for several awards. Mark Ruffalo was nominated for Performance at the Theatre World Awards, and Kenneth Lonergan was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the Drama Desk Awards.
What awards has This is Our Youth won?
This is Our Youth has won several awards, including the Performance award at the Theatre World Awards for Mark Ruffalo and the Outstanding New Play award at the Drama Desk Awards for Kenneth Lonergan.

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