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''Wow. This was fantastic, intimate, well acted (really enjoyed Andrew Barth Feldman and Joanna Gleason), and quite moving. Harmon has written an intimate, funny and emotional winner.''

I'd agree 1,000%. It got wonderful reviews, and the N.Y. Times made ''We Had a World'' a Critic's Pick. And yet sadly, it was overlooked during awards season. No Outer Critics Circle nominations. No Drama Desk nominations. No Drama League nominations. The only recognition it seemed to get was a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Play. Hope there's a future on Broadway for this terrific family comedy-drama, preferably in a smaller house, like the Helen Hayes.

Updated On: 5/10/25 at 03:56 AM

I adored this play and performances. I don't know if there should be a Broadway life for it in a future MTC season, but I would love to have the opportunity to see it again. Maybe they can just give it another run in the larger basement space.

I'd love to see Joanna Gleason, Jeanine Serralles and Andrew Barth Feldman reunited in Joshua Harmon's ''We Had a World,'' but they deserve a better venue than a larger basement and should be paid Broadway-level salaries.

Last year, there was Paula Vogel's ''Mother Play,'' a three-person family drama starring Jessica Lange, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons. And it played the Helen Hayes just fine, and earned all three of them Tony nominations - a fate I'd also wish for Gleason, Serralles and Feldman. Like Vogel, Harmon oughta get a Best Play nomination, too.

I bet this 3-person play'll get done a lot regionally, but I hope today's closing isn't the end of this ''World'' in NYC.

Updated On: 5/11/25 at 01:56 PM

mufish said: "The Huntington here in Boston has announced this play as part of their 2025-26 season, running from February 12-March 15, 2026. That would seem to point towards no additional productions in NYC for about the next year or so. Worth noting though that Prayer for the French Republic was part of the Huntington's 2023-24 season before it ran on Broadway a couple months later, so perhaps history will repeat itself with this latest Joshua Harmon work."

That’s possible, though a February to March run in Boston is later in the season. It gets tough to find a Broadway theater, especially one that is the right size, in April, doesn’t it?

My daughter saw the play a few weeks ago and loved it, but Waymon_Wong is correct that it was pretty much ignored by the organizations and critics’ groups that honor off-Broadway work. Given Harmon’s track record, I would be surprised if there isn’t a Broadway run at some point, but it doesn’t have the momentum I might have expected - aside from regular people who actually saw the play.