Just over 10 years ago, This Is Our Youth was an off-Broadway hit, and a springboard for the careers of playwright Kenneth Lonergan and actor Mark Ruffalo. Lonergan's three-hander about a pair of disaffected rich boys in Manhattan who sample drugs, dealing and sex in a doomed search for fulfillment, seemed rather daring. His ability to capture the awkward patois of contemporary kid-speak was funny and fresh. What a difference a decade makes! Now, Lonergan's play seems by turns a tepid stoner comedy and an overreaching sociological parable for Reagan-era excesses. The charms of Youth lasted but a moment. I saw the show in its off-Broadway incarnation, which was terrific. But even then, I sensed that the production gave the script a lot of help — specifically, expert direction that punched up the comic moments and etched the...
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