Video: Watch Andrew Barth Feldman & Joanna Gleason in WE HAD A WORLD
Now running Off-Broadway, the play also stars Jeanine Serralles.
By: Michael Major Mar. 19, 2025
Watch a first look at Off-Broadway's We Had A World, starring Joanna Gleason, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Jeanine Serralles. It was is written by Tony Award nominee Joshua Harmon, and directed by Tony Award nominee Trip Cullman. See the new video, offering a look inside the new production, now running through April 27.
In the play, 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.
"This play is really the asking of a question- in a family, how can things be so wonderful sometimes, so awful the rest of the time, and then it's over," Andrew Barth Feldman recently told BroadwayWorld. "We lose people, we lose places. How do we wrestle with that? This play is the wrestling with that and that's through my character. That's an incredibly fulfilling gift."
Scenic Design is by John Lee Beatty. Costume Design is by Kaye Voyce. Lighting Design is by Ben Stanton. Original Music and Sound Design is by Sinan Refik Zafar. Wig and Make-Up Design is by Tommy Kurzman. Casting is by Kelly Gillespie. Production Stage Manager is Bess Marie Glorioso.
