

Prodigal Son
John Patrick Shanley
Awards & Recognition
Winner! One 1997 Lucille Lortel Award Winner! One 1999 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee: 2015 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
THE STORY: 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 b
"The playwright has unfailing antennae for the crude folkways of this dissolute urban tribe, whose customs revolve around drug dealing, scamming their uninterested parents and recreating their broken homes in their dysfunctional friendships. These are the disposable offspring of the elite, as wired and drifting in their way as the lowlife juvenile delinquents caught in the klieg lights of Cops. The major difference is these articulate sociopaths in training can talk their way out of trouble, and, if all else fails, their folks will surely find it in their hearts to get them good lawyers."
— The New York Times
"Lonergan, whose ear for the way his characters speak is pitch-perfect, is no less attuned to the simmering potential in their silent hearts."
— Variety
| Character |
|---|
| Warren Straub 19 years old |
| Jessica Goldman 19 years old |
| Dennis Ziegler 21 years old |
This is Our Youth – 2014 Broadway Production Highlights
This Is Our Youth is a American play written by Kenneth Lonergan and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1999).
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