NYC Theater Trip 2025: "The Picture of Dorian Gray" at The Music Box Theatre on Broadway

Show*: 5

Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Location: The Music Box Theatre

Written By: Oscar Wilde, adapted by Kip Williams

Summary: A multi-media experience of Oscar Wilde's only novel combining live performance, recorded video, and live video, with all parts performed by one actor.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Collide Theatrical Dance Company at Park Square Theatre

Now in their 6th season, Collide Theatrical Dance Company is an expert at telling stories through dance. In their newest original jazz dance musical, playwright and frequent collaborator Michael Hanna has re-imagined Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray in the modern NYC fashion world with all female characters. I'll let Regina Peluso, Collide's Artistic Director and choreographer of this show, take it from here. "This classic story, as told through a female lens, illustrates many central themes for women today including the fight against aging in our culture and in the beauty industry, social media's narcissistic influence, the depravity behind perfection, and the debate between beauty and morality." That's more words than are uttered in the entire 100-minute (including intermission) show, but all of that and more is conveyed through the expressive choreography, beautifully danced and emoted by the company, the appropriately chosen pop songs, and the sparkling look of the show. It's a fabulous and well constructed piece of dance-music-theater.

Fringe Festival 2015: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Day: 6

Show: 28

Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Category: Drama

By: New Epic Theater

Written by: Oscar Wilde

Location: Ritz Theater Proscenium

Summary: A modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel about a cold, cruel, beautiful man and the artist who's in love with him.

Highlights: As in last year's One Arm, director/scenographer Joseph Stodola once again presents a stylistically beautiful and ambitiously staged drama with a cast full of fantastic actors. The show opens with a sort of dark dance as the characters move around the stage, fight, and create beautiful pictures (movement by James Kunz). All are dressed in black, white, and gray, and florescent lighting is well used to create some stark images (lighting by Karin Olson). The whole look of the show is sleek and cool, which matches the tone of the story. Dorian (Trevor Goris) is not a likeable character - selfish, conceited, cruel, and obsessed with the idea that his picture should age while he remains young and beautiful. He has poor Basil, the artist (Caleb Fritz Craig), under his spell, parties with buddies Harry (Casey Hoekstra) and Alan (Ryan Colbert), and does not treat the women in his life well (Alexandra Dorschner and Kieherra Laing). Things take an ugly and violent turn but Dorian remains beautiful on the outside in this well-realized concept that leaves one feeling cold.