Broadway Run of Giant, Starring John Lithgow, Recoups and Becomes a Hit

The Broadway production of Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated drama Giant, starring John Lithgow, is officially a hit, recouping its $5.6 million capitalization costs in 10 weeks. The play is scheduled to close on June 28, ahead of an international cinema release of the show beginning November 19.

Set in the summer of 1983, just before the release of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Dahl and his American and British publishers as they scramble to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book on the 1982 Lebanon war.

Giant is currently running on Broadway following sold-out runs at the Royal Court Theatre and in London’s West End, where it was filmed at the Harold Pinter Theatre. The screen cast will be made up of Lithgow as Dahl, Olivier winner Elliot Levey, Tony nominee Aya Cash, Rachael Stirling, Tessa Bonham Jones, and Richard Hope. It is directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Of the Broadway production, our critic called Giant “a masterfully written and thrillingly performed drama.”

Lithgow, Cash, Hytner, and Rosenblatt are currently nominated for Tony Awards.