Arts on the Grounds

Saturday, October 4, 2025
2:00–3:30 p.m. PDT
5:30–7:00 p.m. PDT

2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018

The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”

Award-winning theater company Box Tale Soup returns to the Clark Library with a re-mounting of their original adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, complete with a reimagined set and new puppets. This presentation of Oscar Wilde’s haunting story of evil, debauchery, and scandal features exquisite puppetry and a powerful original soundtrack. Dorian Gray, young and exceptionally beautiful, sinks deep into a frivolous lifestyle of glamorous luxury and selfish abandon, seemingly unchanged by corruption and untouched by age. But behind a thick, locked door, beneath a dark, heavy curtain, Dorian’s portrait tells a different story….

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