Sarah Snook Goes Fantastically Wilde In ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ – Broadway Review

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Opening night: March 27, 2025Venue: Broadway’s Music Box TheatreWritten by: Oscar WildeAdapted and Directed by: Kip WilliamsPerformer: Sarah SnookCamera Operators: clew, Luka Kain, Natalie Rich, Benjamin Sheen, Dara WooRunning time: 2 hrs (no intermission)Deadline’s takeaway: If only Oscar Wilde were alive to offer up a pithy description of Broadway’s playful The Picture of Dorian Gray starring the remarkable Succession actor Sarah Snook, because this is a production that most of us will need more than a few words to convey all of its exuberant theatrical dazzle.

Equal parts acting masterclass, tech wizardry, illusion and clockwork stage management, all costumed and set designed with the wit and color schemes of the most vivid Cindy Sherman photographs, Dorian Gray marks audacious Broadway debuts by both Snook and director-adaptor Kip Williams.

So what if the use of video cameras on stage is already bordering on cliché, or even if it’s already crossed over. Sunset Blvd.‘s nightly closed-circuit saunter down 44th Street proves there’s still some amusement to be had, and now Dorian Gray pushes the evolution forward a few light years.

Snook plays more than two dozen characters, but not in the usual, sequential Patrick Stewart-in-A Christmas Carol or Andrew Scott-in-Vanya way.