Before his death in 2004, celebrated writer, actor, and storyteller Spalding Gray took to the stage with a collection of his beloved and irreverent autobiographical monologues. Gray was at the ...

An intimate theater – the Performing Garage in New York. As the audience waits, quietly talking, a slight, grey-haired man in a plaid shirt and jeans emerges from the shadows. He walks to the stage, ...

Actor-writer Spalding Gray, who laid bare his life in a series of acclaimed monologues like ” Swimming to Cambodia ” while making memorable appearances in such films as ” The Paper, ” was found dead ...

I first saw Spalding Gray on the cover of the paperback version of Sam Shepard’s Tooth of Crime. He was Hoss, shaved head, beard, body twisting away from Crow. I was an undergrad at the University of ...

One of Jonathan Demme’s underseen but pivotal nonfiction films is coming to high-definition home video for the very first time. “Swimming to Cambodia,” a condensed version of Spalding Gray’s two-night ...

Through a fortuitous coincidence, I watched Steven Soderbergh’s new Spalding Gray film “And Everything is Going Fine” and the new Banksy doc “Exit Through the Gift Shop” on consecutive days this week.

This is a story about a man, a dog, a color and the name they share. Hang on. We’ll get there. Spalding Gray did not originate monologue as theater, but he perfected and popularized the form; in ...

It's been 10 years since the writer and monologist Spalding Gray went missing from his home in New York. Two months later, his body was found in the East River in an apparent suicide. The day he ...

Gone. The word reverberated in the silence of a hotel ballroom, despite the almost 900 people who listened. Gone. Spalding Gray, on the screen, recalled the story of when he learned about his mother's ...