‘We Had a World’ Review: Through the Fourth Wall and Into the Past

‘We Had a World’ Review: Through the Fourth Wall and Into the Past

At the onset of Joshua Harmon’s wonderfully textured new play, “We Had a World,” Josh (played by Andrew Barth Feldman) is in his tighty-whities, scribbling in a notebook with a mechanical pencil at a desk on a corner of the stage. Just then his Nana — his dying Nana, to be specific — shows up onstage with a request. She has an idea for a play her grandson should write, a vicious “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”-style work about their family. The…

Playwright Joshua Harmon Turns His Focus to His Family for ‘We Had a World’

The one-act piece is as nakedly personal as anything the playwright — whose previous efforts include such witty and poignant works as ‘Bad Jews,’ ‘Significant Other,’ and the harrowing ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ — has ever delivered.

"We Had a World": an Intermittently Poignant and Funny World - Theater Pizzazz

By Stuart Miller... Josh Harmon relies too much on actual experience instead of diving deep in his new play.

“We Had a World” Review: A Poignant New Play From Joshua Harmon

At the onset of Joshua Harmon’s wonderfully textured new play, “We Had a World,” Josh (played by Andrew Barth Feldman) is in his tighty-whities, scribbling in a notebook with a mechanical pencil at a desk on a corner of the stage. Just then his Nana — his dying Nana, to be specific — shows up onstage with a request. She has an idea for a play her grandson should write, a vicious “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”-style work about their family. The…

Watch Andrew Barth Feldman & Joanna Gleason in WE HAD A WORLD

Watch a first look at Off-Broadway's We Had A World, starring Joanna Gleason, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Jeanine Serralles. See the new video, offering a look inside the new production, now running through April 27.