In the following review, Montrose offers an unfavorable assessment of Impossible Vacation.
Introducing his autobiographical monologue, Monster in a Box (1991), Spalding Gray mentions how, at the ag...
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In the following review, Young offers a favorable assessment of Impossible Vacation.
Spalding Gray and Scott Bradfield are both writers who are extremely sophisticated about fiction. They know exac...
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In the following essay, Brewer examines Gray's attempt to integrate the mind and body in his autobiographic monologues. According to Brewer, "The reciprocity between life and stage, audi...
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In the following review, Stone offers a generally unfavorable review of It's a Slippery Slope.
Spalding Gray is our bard of self-absorption. He's learned to see it with detachment, tu...
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In the following essay, Rothstein discusses Gray's artistic motivations and involvement in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Thornton Wilder, in his 19...
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In the following essay, Demastes examines the development and significance of Gray's innovative performance strategies for contemporary American drama. According to Demastes, "Gray has s...
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In the following review, Lescaze offers a tempered assessment of Impossible Vacation.
Spalding Gray is a comic storyteller in the rich tradition of American naifs to whom amazing things happen. He ...
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In the following interview, Gray discusses the production of his stage and film performances, the evolution of his monologues, and his literary influences.
In many respects, the success of the film...
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In the essay below, Gray offers his observations on performance and on experimental theater, which he calls "backyard theater. "
I never could relate to the term "avant-garde.&...
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On Wednesday, April 25, at around 9:30 p.m., scraggily-haired screenwriter Bruce Vilanch—best known for his uncanny ability to write mildly entertaining material for presenters at the Academy...
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The tree is in the trash, the New Year's hangovers are fading and the leftover Perrier-Jouët is ready for that back shelf in the fridge, but before we begin anew, it's a good time to raise a g...
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Critical Review by David Montrose
Screenwriter Bruce Vilanch Holds Off On Hotly Anticipated T-Shirt Auction
