Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Opens March 6

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, which combines the late actor-writer's monologues and stories with unpublished letters and journal entries, officially opens at the Minetta Lane Theatre March 6; previews began Feb. 20. Featuring Frank Wood, Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman and Ain Gordon, this limited engagement will play through May 13.

Former Producers star Richard Kind was part of the cast Feb. 20-25. Stage and screen star Fisher Stevens is currently playing a limited run through March 7. Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons will join the foursome March 8-11; additional guests will be announced shortly.

Stories to Tell was co-created by Gray's widow, Kathleen Russo, and Lucy Sexton, who also directs. The show, according to press notes, "unfolds chronologically, from recollections of childhood swimming trips with his mother (who also committed suicide) and tales of awkward adolescent sexual encounters, to the joy Gray took in being a father himself." Among Gray's works included in the production are excerpts from Sex and Death to Age 14; Terrors of Pleasure; Swimming to Cambodia; Impossible Vacation; Gray's Anatomy; Monster in a Box; It's a Slippery Slope; Morning, Noon and Night; and Life Interrupted.

The work played UCLA's Freud Playhouse in June 2006 under the title Leftover Stories to Tell, with a cast headed by Teri Garr, John C. Reilly, Tony Shalhoub and Frances Conroy. The Naked Angels Production is being presented by Eric Falkenstein and Michael Alden.

Spalding Gray won an Obie Award for Swimming to Cambodia and filmed the monologue with director Jonathan Demme. Other works include Morning, Noon and Night; Monster in a Box; Gray's Anatomy; and It's a Slippery Slope. He performed on Broadway in Our Town and Gore Vidal's The Best Man. After a series of bouts with depression, Gray took his own life in 2004 by jumping from the Staten Island Ferry into the waters of New York Harbor.

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell plays Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 7 PM with matinees Saturdays and Sundays at 3 PM. The Minetta Lane Theatre is located in Manhattan at 18 Minetta Lane, just off Sixth Avenue.

Tickets, priced $35-$65, are available by calling (212) 307-7171 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available by visiting or calling the Minetta Lane box office at (212) 420-8000.

 

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