Seth Numrich to SLIPPING at Lead Elephant Stages' Lillian Theatre

New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announces the Los Angeles premiere of the critically-acclaimed play Slipping, written and directedby Daniel Talbott, which will begin previews Thursday, April 4, 2013 at Elephant Stages' Lillian Theatre. The five-week limited engagement opens on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 7:00pm and runs through Sunday, May 5, 2013. Considered one of off-Broadway's most respected companies, the OBIE Award-winning Rattlestick is proud to be presenting its first Los Angeles production. A coming-of-age story, Slipping features Seth Numrich (Broadway's War Horse, Golden Boy), in the lead role of Eli, a gay high school senior. Elephant Stages' Lillian Theatre is located at 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038. For venue information, please call 323-962-0046. For additional information, please visit www.Rattlestick.org/rattlestick-LA.

Slipping will run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm and 7:00pm. Tickets are $34 (with discounts available for theater artists, students, and seniors), and are available through Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/335220 or by calling 800-838-3006. Slipping contains adult themes, language, and nudity.

Slipping is the coming-of-age story of Eli. Alone, numb, and friendless after the death of his father, he moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco for a fresh start in Iowa. A new relationship with a boy at school exposes him again to the possibility of closeness and the danger of being swallowed by it.

"It is a play about love and how it is so hard for so many of us to face it, to stare it in the face, to know what to do with it," writes playwright, activist, and Slipping fan Larry Kramer in the play's foreword, "Especially when we are young, but not only then."

The cast of Slipping is MacLeod Andrews (Slipping in New York, Too Much Memory at piece by piece/Rising Phoenix Rep); Maxwell Hamilton (professional stage debut, UCLA productions of RENT and Neon Boneyard); Seth Numrich (Golden Boy, War Horse, The Merchant of Venice on Broadway Iphigenia at Signature, the New York production of Slipping); Wendy vanden Heuvel (Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller at the Guthrie Theater, Counting The Ways/Talk To Me Like the Rain... at the Magic Theatre, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White at Signature).

The Slipping set design is by John McDermott; costume design is by Rachel Myers; lighting design by Leigh Allen; sound design by Janie Bullard; video and projection design is by Kaitlyn Pietras; property design is by Timm Carney. Slipping's Los Angeles casting director is Mark Bennett; assistant director is Sarah Haught; producing for Rattlestick in LA are Addie Johnson-Talbott and Gaalan Michaelson.

Slipping, which was originally workshopped and developed at London's Royal Court Theatre and Rattlestick, received its world premiere at Chicago's The Side Project, directed by Adam Webster. For its New York premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater under the direction of Kirsten Kelly it featured MacLeod Andrews, Adam Driver (currently starring in HBO's "Girls"), Meg Gibson, and Seth Numrich. The critically acclaimed, sold-out New York production was named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate.

"We're excited to bring Slipping to the West Coast and believe Los Angeles audiences will really respond to this material,"says David Van Asselt, Rattlestick artistic director and co-founder. "Despite it being his first play, Talbott's writing is vital, wise beyond its years and unafraid to give us characters who are fierce, passionate, and yet with an underlying core of honesty and sincerity in an age when jaded cynicism is de rigueur."

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