Disney added the idea of linking beauty and kindness on one side and physical and inner ugliness on the other. You had that in fairy tales before, with witches and their big noses, but Disney ...

Rather than an affectation, the use of a single actor is true to Dorian’s split personalities — the outward beauty and inner ugliness, the youthful and decayed, the unrepentant and the tortured.

It is a tale of inner ugliness contrasted with outer beauty, set to the tune of some truly lovely music. Director Patricia Miller has mounted a thoroughly enjoyable production of this classic.

Ugliness comes from trauma and unresolved grief ... and fixating on fleeting flaws blinds us to enduring beauty. Inner beauty, crafted by our actions and intentions — Karma — shapes ...

Celebrating “ugliness” for the past 140 years ... As it evolved, local villagers made it their mission to remind society that inner beauty is more important than one’s physical appearance ...