[5] Notable replacements included Matt Damon, Colin Hanks, Chris Klein, Freddie Prinze Jr., Alison Lohman, Heather Burns, Casey Affleck and Kieran Culkin.

In 2003, Woody Harrelson directed a production of This Is Our Youth for the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with Fabrizio Filippo, Marya Delver and Marcello Cabezas in the cast.

[7] Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin, who co-starred in 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, had been in talks to stage a revival in New York during 2010;[8] they later headlined a run at the Sydney Opera House in March 2012 helmed by original director Brokaw with Australian actress Emily Barclay in the role of Jessica Goldman.

[9][10] A production ran at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, featuring Cera, Culkin, and Tavi Gevinson and directed by Anna D. Shapiro, from June 10 to July 27, 2014.

[14] Writing in The New York Times, critic Peter Marks called the play (in 1996) "a revealing and offbeat dissection of its world," adding, "It is not easy to find love and humor in the middle of nowhere.

In a season in which some of the wise men of the theater have been trying to force-feed insipid fare like Stupid Kids and Footloose to young audiences, it's sheer relief to celebrate the return of a rambunctious and witty play about wayward teen-agers and post-adolescents that doesn't turn youthful travails into plastic rap."