Breaking Baz: Sarah Snook Signs For 2025 Broadway Run Of Her West End Hit ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’
11.05.2024 - 00:15
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Succession star Sarah Snook plays her final performances Saturday night at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket in the enthralling, award-winning play The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the actress now has signed on take it to Broadway for a season in the spring of 2025.
Nothing’s confirmed for NYC, but as soon as a theatre deal is settled next month, the whole big Broadway deal will be announced.
Snook was crowned with an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play during a lavish ceremony last month at the Royal Albert Hall.
Earlier this year, in quick succession, the thespian took home Best Actress honors at the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards, the Emmys and SAG Awards and garlands on home turf in her native Australia for her blistering performance as Shiv Roy in Succession.
Kip Williams, artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, who adapted and directed the Oscar Wilde play, has scouted theatres in New York with producers Michael Cassel of the Michael Cassel Group and Adam Kenwright of Kindred Partners. So far they’ve been offered three houses and, I understand, there’s the possibility of a fourth becoming available to them.
Access Entertainment’s chief executive Danny Cohen, also a producer of the show in London, with Len Blavatnik, will join Cassel and Kenwright in producing on Broadway, as will NYC theatre owner Daryl Roth.
The play, which originated at the Sydney Theatre Company’s Roslyn Packer Theatre in November 2020 — in which Jean Norvill created the 26 different characters — has played a 13½-week season at the Haymarke, in front of a record-breaking 83,000 people at the 821-capacity house.
Producers held back four seats per show for special guests.
After both Snook and the show garnered