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 ...

A rare piece of children's television history went on display at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. In 1986, comedian and actor Rik Mayall performed a version of the author's book George's ...

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 ...

Witches have been pervasive in movie history from the very beginning. It can trace way back to the short films of French director Georges Méliès and audacious films such as “Häxan,” or you can look ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ferocity of John Lithgow‘s explosive performance as Roald Dahl – the children’s author as reviled by some as he was beloved by others – seems to show itself right from the start of Mark Rosenblatt ...

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 ...

In 1939, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comedy “The Man Who Came to Dinner” opened on Broadway at the Music Box, with Monty Woolley creating the role of the nasty, acerbic and very funny writer ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Roald Dahl held nothing back. In the infamous book review that inspired Mark Rosenblatt’s award-winning ...