{"id":155414,"date":"2026-03-06T16:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155414\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:49:23","slug":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray-starring-sarah-snook-now-available-to-watch-at-new-york-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155414\/","title":{"rendered":"The Picture of Dorian Gray Starring Sarah Snook Now Available to Watch at New York Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/sarah-snook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Snook<\/a>&#8216;s Tony Award-winning performance of\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-broadway-music-box-theatre-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/a>\u00a0is now available to watch, in person at the\u00a0Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The performance, which saw Snook playing 26 roles,\u00a0was filmed in June 2025 at Broadway&#8217;s Music Box Theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show was adapted and directed by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/kip-williams-producer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kip Williams<\/a> from the <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/oscar-wilde-vault-0000013745\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Wilde<\/a> novel.\u00a0Dorian Gray\u00a0closed its limited run\u00a0last year after winning two Tony Awards, for Snook&#8217;s performance and for Costume Design of a Play.<\/p>\n<p>The film and tape archives features more than 4,000 filmed recordings of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows dating back to 1970\u2014new recordings are released after shows have closed. Other recently released titles\u00a0include\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/gypsy-broadway-majestic-theatre-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gypsy<\/a>\u00a0starring Audra McDonald and\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/john-proctor-is-the-villain-broadway-booth-theatre-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Proctor is the Villain<\/a> starring Sadie Sink.<\/p>\n<p>But before you run to the library, you need to remember that these filmed productions are captured for research purposes. That means they&#8217;re more barebones than a typical commercial\u00a0live stage capture. In addition, you must have a valid NYPL library card and you can only watch these productions onsite at the Lincoln Center branch while a librarian is present. Each production can only be viewed once.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though there is a caveat:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/new-york-educators-can-now-show-broadway-archives-from-the-new-york-city-public-library-in-their-classrooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">New York City teachers<\/a>\u00a0can show the productions in the NYPL archives off-site in a classroom (so students can watch Snook&#8217;s version of\u00a0Dorian Gray in the classroom as part of a course on Wilde&#8217;s novel).<\/p>\n<p>These restrictions are how TOFT can capture every Broadway show and make them available to the general public for free, and without paying any of the artists involved\u2014because these recordings can only be accessed in a limited capacity for research purposes.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to view your favorite theatrical productions one more time, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nypl.org\/locations\/lpa\/theatre-film-and-tape-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">NYPL.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Snook&#8216;s Tony Award-winning performance of\u00a0The Picture of Dorian Gray\u00a0is now available to watch, in person at the\u00a0Theatre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-155414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}