Live Film of Giant—Starring John Lithgow—Will Hit Movie Theaters
Mark Rosenblatt‘s play Giantpresently working on Broadway on the Music Box Theater and a 2026 Tony nominee for Best Play, will hit film theaters this fall, with screenings set to start November 19 within the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and different worldwide territories.
Tickets will go on sale July 9. Check GiantInCinemas.com to discover a screening close to you.
The broadcast will function a filmed, stay efficiency from the play’s run in London’s West End, with John Lithgow starring as kids’s e-book writer Roald Dahl reverse co-stars Aya Cash (The Boys) as US writer Jessie Stone; Elliot Levey as Dahl’s Jewish writer, Tom Maschler; and Rachael Stirling ace Felicity Crosland. All 4 are presently reprising their performances within the play’s Broadway bow. The movie may also function Tessa Bonham Jones as Hallie and Richard Hope as Wally.
The play is presently nominated for 4 2026 Tony Awards, together with Best Play, Leading Actor for Lithgow, Featured Actress for Cash, and Direction for Nicholas Hytner. The London run received three 2025 Olivier Awards, taking Best New Play, Lead Actor for Lithgow, and Supporting Actor for Maschler.
Giant is one of two (thus far) of this season’s performs that may broadcast stay stage movies. Roundabout Theater Company’s Fallen Angels will also livestream a performance in June. Giant‘s screenings are being produced by Brian and Dayna Lee, Stephanie Kramer and Nicole Kramer, Josh Fiedler and Robyn Goodmanand Royal Court Theatre, in partnership with Trafalgar Releasing.
The work comes on the heels of a broader cultural dialog about Dahl’s work and the bias that was embedded in lots of of his tales. In 2023, a whole lot of phrases in Dahl’s books had been both altered or omitted from future printings to be able to take away numerous unfavourable references to race, pores and skin coloration, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, and extra.
“In my 53-year, 25-show career on Broadway, I’ve rarely experienced the kind of audience response that we feel night after night with Giant,” says Lithgow in a press release. “Mark Rosenblatt has written a play of extraordinary intelligence and humanity, and with each efficiency I can sense the viewers wrestling with its questions in actual time. This is the distinctive energy of theater at its greatest. “I’m thrilled that our production will now reach movie theaters around the world, allowing even more people to experience the urgency, impact, and emotional force of this story.”
“When I began to write Giantmy first play, I never dreamed that it would be seen by so many—at the Royal Court, in the West End and, now, on Broadway. That the play, and this exquisite cast’s stellar performances, might now be experienced by a yet wider audience around the world with a new kind of immediacy and intimacy—close-up, at a cinema—is, to me at least, giddy-makingly astounding.”
The manufacturing additionally options scenic and costume design by Bob Crowleylighting design by Anna Watsonsound design by Darron L West.
Visit GiantThePlay.com.
