THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Reviews

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 6:52pm

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 9:15pm

Expect raves for this.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 9:56pm

TimeOut: 4 stars

The Picture of Dorian Gray

4 out of 5 stars

Sarah Snook takes a triumphant walk on the Wilde side.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-broadway-review-sarah-snook-solo-oscar-wilde

"As the play nears its end (after a cinematic chase scene that Williams has added), the narrator recedes and Dorian takes over the telling of the story—still in the third person, but without the narrator’s tone of arch remove. This final version of Dorian, tormented by fear and conscience, gets increasingly desperate and frantic as the corrosion of his soul catches up to him. And as his tale becomes more urgently personal, so does Snook’s performance: By the finale, she is speaking straight out to the audience, and we are staring right back at her actual body, not a body mediated through somebody’s lens. It’s the show’s most stunning transformation of all—the folding of multiplicity back into singularity and sincerity—and Snook makes it a thing of beauty."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 9:59pm

NY Stage Review

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: SARAH SNOOK SLAYS WITH MULTIPLE SELFIES AND MULTIMEDIA SCREENS

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ Oscar Wilde’s tale is distilled as a succession of images reflecting a beauty with a beastly ego

https://nystagereview.com/2025/03/27/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-sarah-snook-slays-with-multiple-selfies-and-multimedia-screens/

 

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: A MASTERPIECE FROM PAGE TO STAGE

By Roma Torre

★★★★★ Succession’s Sarah Snook is brilliant as everyone in a wild adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s prophetic novel

https://nystagereview.com/2025/03/27/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-a-masterpiece-from-page-to-stage/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:01pm

NYT: Green, not a Critic's Pick

Review: Sarah Snook Stars in the Selfie of ‘Dorian Gray’

The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/theater/picture-of-dorian-gray-review-snook.html

"Still, what I missed most in this “Dorian Gray” was not Wilde; I find the story as he originally wrote it brilliant but so mannered that you can only sip it slowly, like absinthe. (The novel is more conventional.) What I missed was eye contact. The audience and actor are like disputants kept in different rooms, forbidden to see each other fully. The theater is in that sense empty. She, and we, might as well not be there."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:03pm

Deadline

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

https://deadline.com/2025/03/sarah-snook-dorian-gray-broadway-review-1236348875/

"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."

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:03pm

Washington Post

Sarah Snook takes on Oscar Wilde in a dazzling Broadway debut

The “Succession” star plays every part many times larger than life in “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2025/03/27/sarah-snook-picture-of-dorian-gray-broadway/

"Snook’s turn in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is a fabulous tour de force — cheeky, campy and captivating to the point of uncanny. This adaptation of the novel from director Kip Williams combines the pleasures of multiple forms — literature, fine art and video design among them — into a modern hybrid fueled by old-fashioned showmanship. Though you may ultimately feel like burying your nose in a book to make up for the glut of screen time, Snook’s tremendous performance is among the year’s best."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:04pm

WSJ: 

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘Vanya’ Review: Classics Go Solo

Sarah Snook gives a gloriously grotesque suite of performances in a one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel on Broadway, while Andrew Scott performs a remarkable, smaller-scale one-man version of the Chekhov drama at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-and-vanya-review-classics-go-solo-af462cc8

"Watching Ms. Snook strut, pose, preen, sniff, snap and snarl her way through the book’s coddled or corrupt upper-crust characters is more like watching a deconstructed movie with a live element appended than it is a fully theatrical event. It brought to mind the enjoyably lurid Hammer horror films—with maybe a Roger Corman movie thrown in—but with the astonishingly vital and various Ms. Snook in all the roles, providing each with the lavish histrionics that they require, without quite tumbling the proceedings into pure camp."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:05pm

Theatermania

Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray Meets Facetune on Broadway

Sarah Snook stars in a solo adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel.

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-meets-facetune-on-broadway_1768681/

"Unfortunately, Williams’s more-is-more approach also creeps into Snook’s performance, which is initially so controlled, yet ends with her whirling and wailing like a washed-up kabuki star."

[chanel]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:05pm

Village Voice: Sarah Snook (Succession), a real fireball of an actor, takes on no fewer than 26 roles in the one-person (plus six-videotographer) version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, currently on Broadway. A rave.
 

https://www.villagevoice.com/review-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-is-not-a-pretty-picture-just-great-theater/

Updated On: 3/27/25 at 10:05 PM

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:06pm

That’s an interesting perspective from Green.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:06pm

Variety

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Review: Sarah Snook’s Solo Broadway Outing Can’t Find Meaning in the Artifice

https://variety.com/2025/legit/reviews/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-review-sarah-snook-broadway-1236350253/

"despite some fancy camera work and close-ups, this production only goes skin-deep. Wilde himself was an aficionado of artifice, which makes the irony here all the more painful, since this production cannot find any depth in its surfaces. "

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:07pm

Theatrely

A Powerhouse Sarah Snook Takes On THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY — Review

https://www.theatrely.com/post/a-powerhouse-sarah-snook-takes-on-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-review


"Yet Snook, though tremendously bawdy and having a great time, does not find a legible Dorian to center Williams’ breathless staging. There is a brief moment, near the play’s conclusion, when live-Snook finally gets the stage to herself. As she speaks to us directly and without adornments and Dorian confesses his fear and deep self-loathing, a bit of humanity does start to seep in. 

Yet all too quickly, the screens slide back onto stage, taking over again for a bravura finale. The show’s conclusion is an astonishing technical display by Snook, the camera crew and the magicians backstage. But as we’re busy being awed, it’s easy to forget what story is even being told. "

Updated On: 3/27/25 at 10:07 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:09pm

NY Post

‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ review: Sarah Snook wows in technical marvel Broadway play

https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/entertainment/picture-of-dorian-gray-review-sarah-snook-wows-in-technical-marvel-broadway-play/

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:10pm

The Wrap

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Broadway Review: Sarah Snook Doesn’t Paint a Pretty Portrait

The “Succession” star plays all the roles in this send-up of the Oscar Wilde classic

https://www.thewrap.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-broadway-review-sarah-snook/

"As for Snook, her performance goes completely over the top. It’s grand. It’s fraught. She’s no longer Dorian Gray, much less Glynis Johns. She is an actor going mad in front of our eyes. Or perhaps Snook is just showing off big time."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:11pm

Daily Beast:

‘Succession’ Star Sarah Snook Is Giving the Year’s Best Acting Performance

TONY ALERT!

Sarah Snook has already won an Olivier for playing 26 characters in the “Picture of Dorian Gray.” A Tony may follow—even if the production can feel exhausting as well as dazzling.

"There are only a few moments where Snook is alone center stage with no cameras, delivering lines as if in a conventional play. When it happens it’s a shock—so focused we have been on all the screens, and on the many feats of technical trickery the production excels in. Here, finally, is Snook simply acting, and instead of the screens-as-familiar-accessory-and-crutch, the audience has to pay a more traditional kind of attention.

Such rare moments are necessarily exposing for the character, and a welcome splash of cold water for us watching. I wished there had been more of them throughout, Snook simply acting unencumbered by camera operators and the show’s whizz-bang technology."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:13pm

USA Today

'Dorian Gray' review: Sarah Snook dazzles in a dizzying high-wire act on Broadway

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/03/27/picture-dorian-gray-review-broadway/82633789007/

"Despite the show’s overreliance on whiz-bang technology, Snook is never anything less than jaw-dropping. The Australian actress tackles the prodigious task at hand with breathtaking precision, believably engaging in verbose conversations with her digitalized selves, and never missing a beat as she plays to each and every camera that’s ceaselessly roving and whirring around her."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:13pm

NY Daily News

BROADWAY REVIEW: Sarah Snook is a powerful presence in ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/27/broadway-review-sarah-snook-is-formidable-presence-in-picture-of-dorian-gray/

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:15pm

B+ from Entertainment Weekly

The Picture of Dorian Gray review: Sarah Snook stuns in slick reinvention of Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale

Kip Williams' clever one-woman show adapts the classic exploration of narcissism for the digital age.

https://ew.com/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-review-broadway-sarah-snook-reinvents-oscar-wilde-11703454

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:15pm

NY Sun

‘Dorian Gray’ Is a Picture of a Broadway Masterpiece

The actress Sarah Snook plays every part in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s drama of desire and distortion.

https://www.nysun.com/article/dorian-gray-is-a-picture-of-a-broadway-masterpiece

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:16pm

Slant

Frivolity Revs Up on Broadway: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘Operation Mincemeat’

The silliness sticks more than the pathos in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/theater/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-operation-mincemeat-review-sarah-snook/

"Perhaps it’s because so much of the story relies in pre-recorded video that the tale’s emotional underbelly—the deep self-loathing that drives Wilde’s characterization and Dorian’s thinly shrouded queerness that marginalizes him even as he gains prestige—never really kicks in. Still, David Bergman’s virtuosic video design and Snook’s riotous rollercoaster of a 26-part performance keep The Picture of Dorian Grey riveting and compellingly ridiculous."

[KitKatBoy24]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:17pm

Not Redwood getting a NYT Critics Pick and The Picture of Dorian Gray not…

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:17pm

Observer

Review: Sarah Snook Blows Up in Multimedia Dazzler ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ 

Snook gives a master class, playing 26 characters in an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel that's hideously apt for our age of Instagram filters and social media.

https://observer.com/2025/03/review-sarah-snook-blows-up-in-multimedia-dazzler-the-picture-of-dorian-gray/

"At this point, theater purists may throw up their hands and demand: Why pay inflated Broadway prices for what is essentially two hours of TV? To my mind, it’s sublime spectacle with impeccable dramaturgy, all spun around phenomenal acting. More, there’s an accomplished physical dimension to the piece, which is minutely choreographed (blink and you’ll miss little dance steps camera operators execute at one point while circling Dorian). There are several rolling scenic elements—including a toy puppet theater that Snook pops into from below, looking like a jolly decapitated diva. One’s eyeballs gobble up Marg Horwell’s luscious, flower-filled sets and costumes, which practically tickle your nostrils with floral aromas."

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:18pm

Holdren in Vulture

 

This Picture of Dorian Gray Leaps Off the Wall

Brimming with color and directorial innovation, fabulously embodied by Sarah Snook.

https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-sarah-snook-picture-of-dorian-gray-nyc-broadway.html

"Fast, clever, delicious, and performed by Snook with the giddy virtuosity of Simone Biles executing a floor routine, it reaches the gut and the heart lightly, thrusting like a fencer, by way of its playfulness and spectacle. It doesn’t need a bullhorn to talk about the now — just a great story and an acrobatic actor."

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 3/27/25 at 10:20pm

KitKatBoy24 said: "Not Redwood getting a NYT Critics Pick and The Picture of Dorian Gray not…"

 

 

Embarrassing lol