John Lithgow stars as Roald Dahl in “Giant.” Mark Rosenblatt’s play moved to Broadway after a successful run on London’s West End. (Joan Marcus) Roald Dahl is a terrible messenger for a serious ...

The new play “Giant,” on Broadway, dramatizes the scandal around Roald Dahl, the beloved children’s-book author who, in the nineteen-eighties, began making antisemitic statements and invoking ...

Shobi Dahl, the co-founder and former CEO of the wildly successful Dave’s Killer Bread company, saved a Lake Oswego mansion from the wrecking ball a decade ago. The burlesque performer spent seven ...

Roald Dahl’s house is falling down. It’s 1983, and the children’s author’s Buckinghamshire estate is undergoing a gut renovation. Its exposed plumbing and naked beams bespeak an unseemly core behind ...

John Lithgow has long been one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of his generation in any medium. In Mark Rosenblatt’s “Giant,” now on Broadway after first being produced in London to ...

NEW YORK — In the summer of 1983, the British author Roald Dahl published a book review in the Literary Review that, to many eyes, revealed the beloved author of the juicy kids’ classics “Charlie and ...

In the summer of 1983, British author Roald Dahl published a book review in the Literary Review that, to many eyes at least, revealed the beloved author of kids’ classics “Charlie and the Chocolate ...

A couple of words are nowhere to be found in the title of the new Broadway play “Giant,” about children’s author Roald Dahl — namely “friendly” and “peach.” 2 hours and 15 minutes, with one ...

Watching “Giant,” opening March 23 on Broadway after a much-hailed run on London’s West End, one is left with little wonder how its protagonist, Roald Dahl, achieved such success as a writer for ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In Mark Rosenblatt’s play, a powerful portrayal of the beloved children’s book author who almost gleefully exposes his bigotry. By Helen ...

Roald Dahl held nothing back. In the infamous book review that inspired Mark Rosenblatt’s award-winning Broadway play Giant—now open at the Music Box Theatre—the celebrated children’s author wrote of ...

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in “Giant’ Credit: Joan Marcus There are moments in a good play when you can feel the temperature of the room drop several degrees. This happens several times in “Giant,” a ...