‘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.

Marc Brenner via The Press Room NYC
Sarah Snook in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' adapted, written and directed by Kip Williams. Marc Brenner via The Press Room NYC

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” stars the actress Sarah Snook, and only Ms. Snook. Calling it a one-woman show, though, hardly does justice to the magic trick of multiplicity she performs, a performance worthy of Oscar Wilde and his strange and seductive tale of innocence lost. It takes nothing away from Ms. Snook’s performance to note that she shares the spotlight with Wilde’s preening prose, so sparkling that it could charge its own admission.

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