Larry David likes to write about what he knows - himself - and it's no different in his new play "Fish in the Dark." The play is the "Curb Your Enthusiam" star's first, and he'll make his Broadway debut next March.
"I thought it would be pretty cool to write a play someday," David told The New York Times. "I didn't think of myself playing the character, but of course I write characters very close to me."
The comedic play is about a death in a family, inspired by the death of his friend's father. It has 15 characters, and David said he'll play "somebody very similar to Larry David - it might even be Larry David with a different name."
David hesitated in his transition to the Broadway stage as both a playwright and actor. He last acted on stage in eighth grade.
"I did 'Charley's Aunt.' I seem to remember wearing a dress. That's it," he said. "And I'm not really even an actor."
His character on "Curb" did star in a production of the Mel Brooks' musical "The Producers" during the fourth season. He starred as Max Bialystock opposite David Schwimmer's Leo Bloom, but forgot all of his lines halfway through the play.
"Fish in the Dark" will run at a Shubert theater (the exact location coming soon) and open on March 5. Production will further delay a possible ninth season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," if David decides to bring it back at all.
"I'm not going to mentally do that to myself right now," he said. "But if I did do another season, this play would push that schedule back."
Despite earlier reports, David denied that his good friend Jerry Seinfeld was ever involved with the play as a director or actor. The two co-created the '90s sitcom "Seinfeld" that ran on NBC from 1989 to 1999. David served as the show's head writer for all nine seasons.
