Healy's What Once We Felt Opens Off-Broadway Nov. 9

By Adam Hetrick
09 Nov 2009

What Once We Felt stas Ellen Parker and Mia Barron
What Once We Felt stas Ellen Parker and Mia Barron
photo by Gregory Costanzo

The last printed novel in the world takes center stage in Ann Marie Healy's What Once We Felt, which opens Off-Broadway Nov. 9 at the Duke on 42nd Street.

LCT3, the new developmental initiative of Lincoln Center Theater, presents the world premiere that began previews Oct. 26 and will run through Nov. 22.

Ken Rus Schmoll directs the production that features Ellen Parker (Equus, Heidi Chronicles), Opal Alladin (Hedda Gabler, On Golden Pond), Mia Barron (Coast of Utopia), Marsha Stephanie Blake (Joe Turner's Come and Gone), Lynn Hawley (Woyzeck, Aristocrats) and Ronete Levenson (Our Town, Stunning).

Here's how LCT bills the play: "Set in a darkening future, What Once We Felt follows a writer's journey through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print-published novel ever."

What Once We Felt has set design by Kris Stone, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Japhy Weideman and sound design by Leah Gelpe.

Healy's plays include The Legend of Minne Willet, The Gentleman Caller, Have You Seen Steven, The Night That Roger Went To Visit The Parents Of His Old High School Girlfriend, Now That's What I Call A Storm and Dearest Eugenia.

All tickets for LCT3 productions are priced $20. For tickets phone (646) 223-3010 or visit Dukeon42.

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Citing the need to develop strong relationships with new artists and to develop a new audience, and recognizing the frustrations that playwrights have with the current system of readings and workshops, Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of artistic director Andre Bishop and executive producer Bernard Gersten) created LCT3 to offer new artists fully staged productions. Lincoln Center Theater's long term plans for LCT3 call for the creation of a permanent venue to present the work of these artists; to that end a 99-seat theatre will be built in or near Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Paige Evans is the director of LCT3.

Lynn Hawley and Marsha Stephanie Blake in What Once We Felt
Lynn Hawley and Marsha Stephanie Blake in What Once We Felt
photo by Gregory Costanzo