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‘Giant’ Review: John Lithgow’s Brilliantly Bad-Tempered Roald Dahl

Wall Street Journal 25 Mar 2026
The actor makes a commanding and vituperative star turn in Mark Rosenblatt’s play on Broadway about the children’s author, whose flagrant antisemitism sparked an outcry ... .
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Review: In ‘Giant’ on Broadway, John Lithgow plays Roald Dahl in a fight over antisemitism

The Brunswick News 25 Mar 2026
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 the Chocolate Factory” and ... .
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John Lithgow as Roald Dahl in ‘Giant’: A Study in Monstrosity

New York Times 24 Mar 2026
In Mark Rosenblatt’s play, a powerful portrayal of the beloved children’s book author who almost gleefully exposes his bigotry ... .
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‘Giant’ Broadway Review: John Lithgow Devours Roald Dahl for Breakfast

The Wrap 24 Mar 2026
Woolley’s Whiteside has returned to the Music Box in the equally nasty, acerbic and very funny writer Roald Dahl, as ... John Lithgow Devours Roald Dahl for Breakfast appeared first on TheWrap.
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‘Giant’ review: John Lithgow is superb as Roald Dahl in show about his revolting anti-Semitism

New York Post 24 Mar 2026
A couple of words are nowhere to be found in the title of the new Broadway playGiant,” about children’s author Roald Dahl — namely “friendly” and “peach.” Theater review ... John Lithgow plays author Roald Dahl in “Giant” on Broadway.
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Big, Tall, Terrible Roald Dahl Comes to Life in Giant

New York Magazine 24 Mar 2026
And Roald Dahl? Dahl specialized in young protagonists who evade and defy the viciousness of a twisted grown-up world, and then, in 1983, he went on the record with a truly nauseating barrage of antisemitism.
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Quote of the Day from the book 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl: "Somewhere inside all of ...

The Economic Times 21 Mar 2026
... Roald Dahl reflects the story’s core message of inner strength and resilience.
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Roald Dahl’s antisemitism feels painfully familiar

The Spectator 16 Mar 2026
Me on Broadway ... The reason is that back when I started at the Statesman, just out of university and somewhat in awe of pretty much everything, I was asked to interview children’s author Roald Dahl ... Goodbye.” Most popular. Klaus Dodds ... Julie Bindel ... .
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Roald L. Zvonik

Quad-City Times 15 Mar 2026
Moline, Illinois - Roald L. Zvonik, 99, of Moline, Illinois, passed away Friday, March 13, 2026, at Friendship Manor, Rock Island. Funeral arrangements are pending at Trimble Funeral Home & Crematory, Moline ... .
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