Just announced: Broadway revival of "This Is Our Youth" starring Michael Cera

[JohnnyOTrib]

Just announced: Broadway revival of "This Is Our Youth" starring Michael Cera #1

Posted: 4/8/14 at 9:06pm

Just announced in the Chicago Tribune -- a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's "This Is Our Youth" starring Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin will open first at Steppenwolf Theatre in June, and then at the Cort Theatre in August. Anna D. Shapiro directs.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-michael-cera-this-is-our-youth,0,7451983.column

[PlayItAgain]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #2

Posted: 4/8/14 at 9:46pm

YES! finally! saw them do a reading of this last year, Philip Seymour Hoffman was suppose to direct so when he passed I thought the project might be over, although casting Tavi Gevinson over Halley Feiffer (who was phenomenal in the reading) to me is a MAJOR mis-step, oh well is it August yet?

[Kad]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #2

Posted: 4/8/14 at 11:07pm

This has been in the works for years... I'm glad, I guess, it's finally coming to fruition.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[SomeOtherMe]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #3

Posted: 4/8/14 at 11:08pm

While I don't particular love this casting, I've always wanted to see a live production of this play. I'm very excited.

[averagebwaynut]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #4

Posted: 4/8/14 at 11:25pm

Culkin actually first did the play in London in 2003, I believe, (in the Cera role). As noted in the article, Cera did the play with Kieran Culkin in Australia in 2012 under the direction of Mark Brokaw. That production was rumored for NY as the Sydney run was put together in conjunction with a Broadway producer. That producer and the director have since been jettisoned, it appears, by Mr. Rudin. Which is wholly unsurprising.

"No matter how much you want the part, never let 'em see you sweat." -- Old Dry Idea commercial

[wexy]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #5

Posted: 4/9/14 at 8:49am

I did see this with Mark Rosenthal, Mark Ruffalo and Missy Yeager at the Fairbanks in 1996.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[neonlightsxo]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #6

Posted: 4/9/14 at 8:57am

I love this play, but at 25 and 31, Cera and Culkin are too old. It took too long to get this off the ground. They should have picked a younger cast.

[Sauja]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #7

Posted: 4/9/14 at 10:19am

I'm actually shocked that Culkin is 31. He reads much, much younger to me. As does Cera. I can really get behind this casting. And while Gevinson is untested, I did think she was wonderful in the movie Enough Said. I have high hopes.

[AC126748]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #8

Posted: 4/9/14 at 12:34pm

Mark Ruffalo was 29 when this play premiered, and 31 when he did it again at Second Stage. Josh Hamilton was 27. And Matt Damon was north of 30 when he did it in London. Saying Cera and Culkin (who does read younger) are too old is ridiculous.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[AwesomeDanny]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #9

Posted: 4/9/14 at 9:26pm

Interestingly, at Steppenwolf, it will be staged in their alley space, but it will be adapted to a proscenium setting for Broadway. For this reason, I think it would be very interesting to see how this production changes. I will at least get to see it in Chicago this summer, and I'm certainly looking forward to it!

[CapnHook]

Just announced: Broadway revival of #10

Posted: 4/9/14 at 9:41pm

This would be the second play next season to re-stage from an in-the-round theater to proscenium (the other being THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME).

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle