We Had a World Tickets

By: Joshua Harmon
Director: Trip Cullman
Producer: Manhattan Theatre Club
Cast list: Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason, Jeanine Serralles
Sets: John Lee Beatty
Costumes: Kaye Voyce
Lighting: Ben Stanton
Sound: Sinan Refik Zafar
Other info: Original music by Sinan Refik Zafar

Joshua Harmon has had a prolific career, writing numerous acclaimed shows that often focus on family, identity, and contemporary politics. He first made a splash with the hilarious Bad Jews, and his new play, We Had a World, offers a similar cantankerous and funny sensibility. A Tony Award nominee for Prayer* for the French Republic*, Harmon has also written Skintight, Significant Other, and The Bedwetter.

In many of his plays, his characters unleash emotional and strained yet hysterical screeds. He is known for his powerful monologues, intricate characters, and modern plots. A rumination on family, this new play may be one of his most personal yet and promises audiences a unique window into one family’s story.

In We Had a World, Harmon collaborates alongside another new play aficionado, Trip Cullman, to tell the story of a grandmother’s dying wish: her grandson to write a play about their family, “but I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible.”

What to watch for

• Joshua Harmon returns to Manhattan Theatre Club with this new play; previously, the theater staged his Tony-nominated Prayer for the French Republic.
• Manhattan Theatre Club is known for their intellectual plays that go on to win major awards, as with Doubt and Proof, which both won Pulitzer Prizes.
• Joanna Gleason is a theatre icon, having originated the role of The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods and also appearing in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, It’s Only a Play, and more.
• Trip Cullman has previously worked on many other new off-Broadway plays and musicals, including Yen, Unknown Soldier, and The Pain of My Belligerence.