WE HAD A WORLD
World Premiere
Manhattan Theatre Club presents
We Had A World
By Joshua Harmon
Directed by Trip Cullman
Featuring Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason, Jeanine Serralles
Performances begin Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Opening Night Wednesday, March 19, 2025
NY City Center Stage II, 151 West 55th Street
Andrew Barth Feldman (Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen; Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors) will join Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason (Broadway: Into the Woods, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Film: Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Boogie Nights) and Drama Desk Award nominee Jeanine Serralles (Television: “Apples Never Fall,” “Hightown,”; Film: Inside Llewyn Davis, Hot Summer Nights) in the world premiere of We Had A World, written by Tony Award nominee Joshua Harmon (Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (MTC), Bad Jews, Significant Other) and directed by Tony Award nominee Trip Cullman (Choir Boy at MTC, Lobby Hero, Murder Ballad at MTC, Six Degrees of Separation).
We Had A World is MTC’s first production at NY City Center Stage II since the pandemic shutdown began.
A dying woman (Gleason) calls her grandson (Feldman) and asks him 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." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, the author of last season's Tony Award-nominated Prayer for the French Republic recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love.
Major support for Stage II is provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Additional support is provided by The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.