Stories Left to Tell, which interweaves the late actor-writer's monologues and stories with unpublished letters and journal entries, will also feature the previously announced Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman and Ain Gordon. Opening night is scheduled for March 6; the run will end May 13.
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." The production will include diary extracts as well as 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.
Previously titled Leftover Stories to Tell, the work played UCLA's Freud Playhouse in June 2006 with a cast headed by Teri Garr, John C. Reilly, Tony Shalhoub and Frances Conroy.
The upcoming 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. Frank Wood won a Tony Award for his performance in Side Man and was also seen on Broadway in Hollywood Arms. His other theatrical credits include The God of Hell, Spring Awakening, The Wax, Peter and Jenny, Waiting for Godot, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Light Up the Sky, Our Town, Hamlet and The Rainmaker.
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell will play 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.
