For Aya Cash, Giant Is More Than a Broadway Debut
Hometown: San Francisco, California Current role: Aya Cash makes her Broadway debut as Jessie Stone in Giant. Aya Cash (Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) Previous roles: Cash …
Hometown: San Francisco, California Current role: Aya Cash makes her Broadway debut as Jessie Stone in Giant. Aya Cash (Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) Previous roles: Cash …
The behind-closed-doors dramatization of Roald Dahl’s real-life scandal riffs on the “inherently artificial” aesthetic of English country house dramas, said playwright Mark Rosenblatt …
The Broadway Theatre Review: John Lithgow leads a razor-sharp Broadway transfer of Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier-winning play By Ross Hammering echoes behind the tarps and scaffolding before any…
The dark side of a Dahl's life.
Mark Rosenblatt's Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children's book author, draws from Dahl's comments over the years.
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Mark Rosenblatt's new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make Anti-Semitism Despicable Again. MADA baseball caps coming soon. You read it here first. The play, …
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has determined the eligibility status of three Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the third time this season that the committ…
Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens speaks with GIANT playwright Mark Rosenblatt about the experience of writing his Olivier Award-winning play. Get tickets to GIANT: https://www.broa…
Sometimes an actor gives such a commanding performance that he will always be that character. So it was with John Lithgow portraying Roald Dahl in the Olivier award- winning play Giant, rece…
Giant marks a major arrival for Mark Rosenblatt, whose Olivier Award-winning play is now on Broadway with John Lithgow leading the charge. Long known as a theater director in the U.K. …
"Giant," the new play penned by Mark Rosenblatt that opened on Broadway refers to the well-known author of children's books Roald Dahl. The word 'Giant' may pertain to Dahl standing six foot…
Lithgow, 80, plays an intelligence agent in the FX action series The Old Man, and he's currently starring in the Broadway production of Giant, about a troubling side of children's author Roa…
By David Sheward April 1, 2026: Two new Broadway plays are set in the last decades of the 20th century and based on real events. Both are startlingly relevant, foretelling fissures and frac…
By Paulanne Simmons April 1, 2026: We all know (or should know) that children's author Roald Dahl was an antisemite. But before seeing Mark Rosenblatt's Giant, recently transferred to Broad…
Broadway " Music Box Theater: 239 West 45 Street. March 23-June 28, 2026. Drama. Author: Mark Rosenblatt. Director: Nicholas Hytner. 2 hrs, 15 min. Critic: David Sheward (March 2026). **** G…
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Mark Rosenblatt, the Olivier Award-winning theater and film writer and director whose debut play Giant opened last week on Broadway in a critically acclaimed produc…
The play is preachy. But John Lithgow is magnificent.
Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Giant, Every Brilliant Thing, Masquerade, Mexodus @ Daryl Roth Theatre, Monte Cristo @ Theatre at St. Jean's, Ma…
ADMISSION " Never knew much about the author Roald Dahl, let alone how to pronounce his name correctly BUT I was extremely curious to see GIANT a play about him by Mr. Mark Rosenblatt. I hav…
The two actors previously squared off at the 2025 Olivier Awards where Lithgow prevailed.
It doesn't matter that this debate never took place because, aside from an overly contrived moment regarding Jessie's copy of Dahl's review, it's plausible enough to believe in, and it makes…
Mark Rosenblatt's knotty play about the author Roald Dahl transfers to Broadway with a generational performance by John Lithgow. Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: Giant at The Music …
The theatrical event of the season.