Pictured: Javier Ferreira

City Lit Theater has announced the cast for Paul Edwards’s world premiere adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.

Directed by Andrea J. Dymond, the production features Javier Ferreira (Dorian Gray), Gabriel Fries (Basil), Scott Olson (Henry Wotton), Alyssa Thordarson (Sybil/Cecily), Ryan Leonard (James/Alan Campbel), and Stephen Rosenberger (Victor).

Top row L-R: Javier Ferreira, Gabriel Fries, and Alyssa Thordarson. Lower row L-R: Scott Olson, Stephen Rosenberger, Ryan Leonard

Artistic Director Terry McCabe “contacted Edwards earlier this year to request permission for City Lit to produce his DORIAN,” according to the press release, “but Edwards instead went back to the novel, ignoring his earlier script entirely, and wrote the completely new adaptation that will premiere at City Lit in March. While it sets the story in a different time and place, it is no less faithful to the heart and soul of Wilde’s novel. McCabe says, ‘Paul’s new adaptation sees Dorian as a Patient Zero who shows none of the results of either epidemic; they show up in the picture instead. This restores the vitality of Wilde’s story, which can sometimes be lost in Victorian classicism.'”

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY runs from March 2 – April 15th. For more information visit citylit.org.