Adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Listed in chronological order of release or broadcast.

• The Picture of Dorian Gray has been produced as an audio-book many times, with narrators including Hurd Hatfield (who starred as "Dorian" in the 1945 film), Martin Shaw, Edward Petherbridge, Simon Callow, Simon Prebble, Simon Vance, Stephen Fry, Rupert Graves, Michael Sheen, Steven Crossley, Greg Wise and Michael Page.
• An adaptation of the story was broadcast on ABC's Mystery Time in 1957 starring Laurence Olivier as Lord Henry Wotten.
• An adaptation of the story was broadcast on the CBC's Stage Series in 1950 with Mavor Moore as Basil Hallward.[4]
• An adaptation of the story was broadcast on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater on August 7, 1974.
• A two-part adaptation of the novel by Nick McCarty was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, subsequently on BBC Radio 7 and BBC Radio 4 Extra, starring Ian McDiarmid as Henry Wotton and Jamie Glover as Dorian.
• An audio adaptation of the novel starring Alexander Vlahos, dramatised by David Llewellyn and directed by Scott Handcock was released by Big Finish Productions in 2013.[5] and accompanies their modern reimagining of the character in their original series, The Confessions of Dorian Gray.

• Family Portrait (also published as Picture of Evil, 1985) is a horror novel by Graham Masterton in which he appropriates Wilde's aging portrait to a whole family.
• Mirror, Mirror (1992), a horror novel by DE Athkins that updates the setting to a high school and makes the protagonist a female. After being befriended by a mysterious new student who gives her a mirror as a birthday present, Dore finds her reflection becoming more and more ugly, even as she appears lovelier, coinciding with her increasingly nasty personality.
• "The Wedding Present", a short story in the anthology Smoke and Mirrors (1998) by Neil Gaiman re-imagines the story from the perspective of a modern newlywed wife. Characters in "The Wedding Present" make several references to the similarities between their situation and the original novel.
• Dorian, an Imitation (2002) is a modern take of the original book, written by Will Self. It updates the original by placing events in June 1981, a time according to Self when "Britain was in the process of burning most of its remaining illusions."[6]
• The Detritus of Dorian Gray is the name of a 2003 book of poems written by Kevin Max, which includes an entry also titled The Detritus of Dorian Gray.
• A Portrait of Dorian Gray (2005) is the fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld's rendition of the novel in photography. The models Larry Scott and Eva Herzigova star as Mr. and Mrs. Dorian Gray.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007) is a graphic novel adaptation by Roy Thomas for Marvel Illustrated.[7][8]
• Creatures of Will and Temper (2017) by Molly Tanzer is a gender-swapped spin on the story. In the book's preamble, Tanzer states her intention to reimagine the novel's central quest for hedonism without moral judgment, writing that "if [the original] truly were amoral, as Wilde maintains, Dorian's excesses would not corrupt his perfect painted image." Her version notably omits the key role of the eponymous portrait.

• A theatrical production of The Picture of Dorian Gray was staged by John Osborne in the mid-1970s.
• A Hungarian musical based on the novel was composed by Mátyás Várkonyi, while Gunar Braunke and János Ács wrote its libretto.[9] It premiered in Rockszínház in 1990.[10] The English version of the musical (translated by: Duncan Shiels)[11] premiered in London in 1995. The German-language version of Dorian Gray (Michael Kunze, Gunar Braunke[11]) toured in Germany for years, and also in the Netherlands, France and Switzerland.
• In 2000, Dorian, a musical with book, music & lyrics by Richard Gleaves, premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House starring Tom Stuart and Sutton Foster (as the invented character of Sister Claire)[12]
• The Canadian playwright Ted Dykstra, along with lyricist Steven Mayoff, wrote a musical titled Dorian based upon the book. The musical premiered in 2002 and is set in the late 1900s, with the character of Dorian transformed from a member of the idle rich to an aspiring young model.
• In 2006, a Czech musical based on the novel premiered in Prague.
• In 2007, Australian production house Diatomic Productions commissioned playwrights Greg Eldridge and Liam Suckling to adapt the novel into a three-act play. The world premiere of this work (held on May 22, 2008) sold out its season before Opening Night and returned to a second season of sell-out shows as part of the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival in October.
• Choreographer Matthew Bourne's contemporary dance adaptation of the story, titled Dorian Gray made its debut at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2008.
• In 2008, Canadian playwright Ian Case adapted the story as a site-specific 90-minute grand-guignol style production, staged at Robert Dunsmuir's Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, B.C., the most recent in a series of Halloween productions which started in 2000.
• A musical adaptation of the book by young theatre company Kangaroo Court ran at the Tabard theatre, Chiswick in 2008. The updated version centres on celebrity obsession and excesses.
• Dorian the Remarkable Mister Gray: A Portrait in Music, is a new stage musical version of, with music, lyrics, and book by Randy Bowser. The work had its premiere at Pentacle Theatre in Salem, Oregon, in 2008. A Russian version is being produced in Moscow, at The Stas Namin Cente.[13][14] The show is represented exclusively by Michael Butler, the original producer of Hair on Broadway.
• In January 2009, Dorian Gray was adapted and directed by Linnie Reedman, with music by Joe Evans. Produced by Ruby In The Dust, the show returned to The Leicester Square theatre with an all-star cast on 26 June 2009, and again re-staged in March 2010 under the title of The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray.
• An operatic version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was staged by Lowell Liebermann. Liebermann wanted to base a play on The Picture of Dorian Gray because "the book made an impression on [him] as no other book has yet done".[15] Premiered at the Monte Carlo Opera in 1996.[16]
• In January 2010, Dorian Gray was adapted by Daniel Mitura and directed by Henning Hegland. Music by Michael Nyman. The show premiered at the Kirk Theatre on 42nd Street in New York.
• On March 7, 2011, Wesley Taylor played the title role in a reading for a stage adaptation penned by playwright Michael Raver.[17] It was directed by Quinten Gordon and co-starred Lauren Molina.[17]
• In February 2013, Dorian Gray was adapted into a musical by Callum Nicholls, a postgraduate composer at Cardiff University School of Music,[18] and was performed by the school's students in Cardiff University Concert Hall.[19]
• In August 2014, The Picture (of Dorian Gray), a modern adaptation derived and performed by the Gravity Partners of Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, was shown at the New York International Fringe Festival.[20]
• In 2016, CJeS Culture staged a Korean musical adaptation, scripted by Cho Yong-shin and composed by Kim Moon-jeong, with Kim Junsu playing the titular role.[21]
• In the summer of 2017, an adaptation by Christopher Dayett and Kevin Mucchetti debuted at the New York Musical Theater Festival.[22]
• In July 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a one-person show based on the book was performed with a limited audience by Billy Christopher Maupin and live-streamed to YouTube at Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, Virginia.[23]