CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE Opening Delayed, Now Begins 10/15

13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), the OBIE Award-winning theater company made up of 13 playwrights, in association with Minetta Street Productions, has announced the delay of performances for its New York premiere of Sheila Callaghan's (P#7) "CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE," directed by Paul Willis. The postponement is the result of a very technically demanding show and the non-traditional space that it's being performed in — the Ideal Glass Gallery (www.idealglass.org), 22 East 2nd Street (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue). Performances which had been scheduled to begin on October 11 will now begin on Wednesday, October 15 and the new official opening night will be Saturday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. Performances will continue, as scheduled, through November 1.
 
Business is at an all time low for Louise in her profession as a "consultant." So in order to keep her daughter April in school, she must sell an expensive family heirloom lamp at the neighbors' yard sale. April sneaks home to steal the lamp, but she is too late — it's been intercepted by the quiet and bizarre couple next door. April is soon taken in by this odd pair, and from within their home she unlocks a haunting secret.
 
Sheila Callaghan's full-length plays include Dead City, Scab, The Hunger Waltz, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Lascivious Something, Kate Crackernuts, and Fever/Dream. Paul Willis most recently directed One Thing I Like to Say Is by Amy Fox for Clubbed Thumb. Other New York credits include Perverter by Andy Horwitz at Dixon Place, and They Saw Dreams by the Free Theatre of Belarus at The Culture Project.
 
The six-member cast for "CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE" will be: Matthew roi Berger (Nolan), Shawtane Monroe Bowen (Niko), Carla Harting (Louise), Jocelyn Kuritsky (April), Matthew Lewis (Dan), and Black-Eyed Susan (Fran). The production stage manager will be Pamela Salling. The set design will be by Anna Kiraly; the lighting design by Ben Kato; the costume design by Jessica Pabst; and the sound design by Eric Shim. Producers for P#7 are Caleb Hammons and David Tirosh. Maria Goyanes serves as 13P's Executive Producer and Karina Mangu-Ward its General Manager.
 
The members of 13P (www.13P.org) are: Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Madeleine George, Rob Handel, Ann Marie Healy, Julia Jarcho, Young Jean Lee, Winter Miller, Sarah Ruhl, Katherine Ryan, Lucy Thurber, Anne Washburn, and Gary Winter.
 
The complete remaining performance schedule (October 15 through November 1) will be: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are a suggested donation of $18.00. To reserve, please visit www.crawlfadetowhite.com or call 212-352-3101.

Photo Credit Jim Baldassare