SAG and Independent Spirit Award winner Paul Sparks has replaced the previously announced Oscar winner Brendan Fraser in Signature Theatre's forthcoming world premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s Grangeville.

Directed by Jack Serio, performances are scheduled Off-Broadway February 4-March 16. Fraser has departed the production due to unforeseen circumstances.

Sparks will join Brian J. Smith (The Matrix Resurrections, The Glass Menagerie, The Columnist) in the two-hander.

Grangeville marks a return to Signature for Sparks, following his roles in the company’s productions of Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo (2018) and Landscape of the Body (2006). He was last seen on a New York stage in the 2023 Theatre for a New Audience production of Waiting for Godot, directed by Arin Arbus. Sparks can currently be seen in Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders for 21st Century Fox.

Grangeville, which takes its title from the Idaho town of the same name, follows two half-brothers who tentatively reconnect over the care of their ailing mother. Sparks plays the older Jerry, who still lives in Grangeville, while Smith plays Arnold, an artist now living in Rotterdam, drawn back into his past.

In his new play Hunter, press notes state, "explores the fallibility of memory, the stories we tell to make sense of our suffering, and the complexity of forgiveness."

The upcoming production will also have scenic design by dots, costume design by Ricky Reynoso, lighting design by Stacey DeRosier, sound design by Chris Darbassie, and dramaturgy by John Baker. Casting is by Caparelliotis Casting's David Caparelliotis, Joe Gery, and Elena Sgouros.

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