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This is Our Youth

Closing: November 24, 1996

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

INTAR Theatre
420 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036

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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by Albert Gutierrez - May 14, 2026


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by Stephi Wild - Apr 30, 2026


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by Stephi Wild - Apr 9, 2026


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Dig Deep Theatre To Present THIS IS OUR YOUTH By Kenneth Lonergan At The Main Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 1, 2025


Dig Deep Theatre's production of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth will run for 9 performances over two weekends at The MAIN in Santa Clarita, April 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27. Dig Deep's production of the play - Lonergan's first playwriting success - will be Santa Clarita's first chance to see his sharp, layered writing brought to the stage.

This is Our Youth History

Other Productions of This is Our Youth

1996   Off-Broadway
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1998   Off-Broadway
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2014   Broadway Broadway Premiere Production
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This is Our Youth - 1996 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations

Note: Award winners are highlighted with a background.
This is Our Youth — awards and nominations
Year Ceremony Category Nominee
1997 Theatre World Awards Performance Mark Ruffalo
1996 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding New Play Kenneth Lonergan

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