Review: 'Giant' dramatizes Roald Dahl's antisemitism controversy

Aya Cash on 'Giant,' boycotting, and the silliest part of being on 'The Boys'

They say don't meet your heroes, and the new-to-Broadway stage play starring Aya Cash (You're the Worst, The Boys) shows why. Written by Mark Rosenblatt, Giant stars John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. The British children's book author is best known for such beloved stories as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. This play, however, addresses how the reception of that work shifts as Dahl expresses antisemitism in o…

Review: 'Giant' dramatizes Roald Dahl's antisemitism controversy

The play presents characters subtly negotiating the entanglements of identity and the perils of cancel culture.

How ‘Giant’ Reopens the Question of Roald Dahl

Explore the Broadway show 'Giant' addressing Roald Dahl's antisemitism and its surprising impact on audiences.

Roald Dahl, Unfriendly Giant

I emerged a little weak-kneed from Giant, the Broadway play starring John Lithgow as a brilliant, twisted, and ultimately hateful Roald Dahl.  The play has been the focus of excited chatter, and rightly so. Powerful and uncannily timely, it digs into a true episode from 1983, when the beloved and prickly children’s author, about to publish his novel The Witches, ran into a public relations uproar after reviewing a book about the Israeli bombing …