Photo Flash: Close Visits Parsons at 'Stories Left to Tell'

Tony Award-winning stage and film star Glenn Close visited Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons in her last night performing in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell at the Minetta Lane Theater.

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, which combines the late actor-writer's monologues and stories with unpublished letters and journal entries, officially opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre March 6; previews began Feb. 20.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.  Parsons performed as a guest star from March 8-11.

Stories Left 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, like Gray, 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.

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.

Photo by Don McAlernen

 
Glenn Close and Estelle Parsons