The Time of Your Life, a three-act playbyAmerican playwright William Saroyan that opened in 1939. This play was the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The play opened 25 October 1939 at the Booth TheatreinNew York City. It was produced by the Theatre Guild and producer Eddie Dowling.
The play is set in a decrepit bar called Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace in San Francisco owned and operated by Joe (Eddie Dowling). He encourages each of his patrons in their eccentricities. Joe helps out a would-be dancer, Harry (Gene Kelly) and sets up his sidekick, Tom with an prostitute, Julie.
Critic John Brown Mason described this modern morality play as "gleeful and heartbreaking, tender and hilarious, probing and elusive."