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Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: 'Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that...' - motivational lessons on education, knowledge and why life experience beats classroom learning by The Picture of Dorian Gray author

Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde's quote highlights that while formal education is valuable, life's most profound lessons in love, failure, and self-awareness are often learned through personal experience. True wisdom, he suggests, transcends textbooks and exams, emerging from lived realities and challenges.

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A picture without words: Polish theatre reframes Dorian Gray through dance

A play without words, but with a whole lot of emotion. Polish choreographer Piotr Jeznach is reinterpreting Oscar Wilde's classic 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' as primarily a dance performance and it makes you want more.

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“Real-Life Dorian Gray”: Youthful-Looking Photographer Stuns After Fans Find Out His Real Age

“In human years?”

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The digital Dorian Gray: Why are we so afraid to update our profile photos?

We cling to decade-old headshots like security blankets: why?

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Sydney Theatre Company books $10m revenue boost after Dorian Gray production becomes global hit

Company due to reap more millions from cut in award-winning Broadway run starring Sarah Snook

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Sarah Snook wins best actress at Tony awards for The Picture of Dorian Gray

Australian actor performed all 26 roles in Broadway production of the Sydney Theatre Company play directed by Kip Williams

The Guardian - AU

Cynthia Erivo to play Dracula and 22 supporting roles in West End transfer of Australian show

Wicked star to play Bram Stoker’s bloodsucking fiend in a production from the creators of Olivier award-winning hit The Picture of Dorian Gray

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STC's Broadway hit Dorian Gray nominated for six Tonys

Sydney Theatre Company's 'cine-theatre' adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway is in the running for six Tony awards.

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'I think he's Dorian Gray': The Bondsman showrunner on Kevin Bacon, demon hunting and blues music in the new Prime Video series

Showrunner Erik Oleson on Kevin Bacon’s wild new demon hunting series, The Bondsman.

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The Substance review – Demi Moore is fearless in visceral feminist body horror

The star plays a middle-aged TV host who signs up for a drug to generate a replicant of her younger self in Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked satire

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Oscar: the tragedy and beauty of Wilde’s life, and an historic moment on the ballet stage

Christopher Wheeldon and The Australian Ballet’s Oscar, which had its world premiere in Melbourne on September 13, is based on the story of Oscar Wilde: the writer, the man, the protester.

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Dracula review – a clever and playful victory lap for Kip Williams’ gothic cine-theatre trilogy

Zahra Newman is remarkable in the director’s last production with the company

The Guardian - AU

Too bald, too mad, too red … How royal portraits get it so wrong

Jonathan Yeo’s divisive painting of the king raises the question of whether paintings of the monarchy have become irrelevant and anachronisitic

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review

Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest

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The Picture of Dorian Gray review – Sarah Snook plays 26 characters in dazzling, dangerous solo show

Aided by elaborate tech, multiple screens and an angelic wig, the Succession star gives a performance that is mischievous, swaggering and operatic

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Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed

Our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Sarah Snook to play all 26 roles in West End production of The Picture of Dorian Gray

‘Succession’ star set to undertake impressive challenge on the London stage

The Guardian - AU

Sarah Snook to play Dorian Gray as hit Australian production heads to London’s West End

The Succession star will take over role from actor Eryn Jean Norvill in The Picture of Dorian Gray, which toured Australia to sell-out audiences

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Snook bound for West End in Australian hit Dorian Gray

Succession's Sarah Snook will take Sydney Theatre Company's groundbreaking one-woman show The Picture of Dorian Gray to London's West End.

Wales Online

Welsh actor Alexander Vlahos reveals that he has ADHD

The Merlin star, who hails from Carmarthenshire, doesn't see it as a "deficit" but something he has benefited from

The Guardian - UK

A bit of me time: the best music, film, books and more about narcisissm

From Lily Allen’s withering takedown of self-obsessed fame to a ravaged painting in an attic, our critics pick culture about taking self-love too far

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Review: The Picture Of Dorian Gray: The good, evil and the picture in the attic

WHEN looking to recommend classic novels to young people, I look to the first one I read.

Evening Standard

Best LGBTQ+ books: Must-read classic and modern novels

Dive into the perspective of the LGBTQ+ community

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9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them

You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for…

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A production to satisfy Sydney's darkest imaginings: Sydney Theatre Company's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company

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