B'way Update: John Lithgow in Giant

John Lithgow and Romola Garai
in Giant in London.
Credit: Manuel Harlan

Tony, Olivier and Emmy winner John Lithgow will return to Broadway for the first time since 2019 in Giant, the play by Mark Rosenblatt in which he starred in London's Royal Court and then the West End. Previews begin March 11, 2026, at a Shubert theater TBA for a limited 16-week run. Lithgow won an Olivier Award for playing author Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) facing a confrontation with his publishers for penning an allegedly anti-Semitic article. The 1983 article voiced Dahl's denunciation of Israel and support for Palestinians during the 1982 Lebanon War. Tony winner Nicholas Hytner directs and Bob Crowley repeats his London designs. The reminder of the cast will be announced at a later date.

"My debut play GIANT was written on spec in my kitchen with no assurance it would ever get produced at all,” said playwright Mark Rosenblatt. “So, to have it premiere at London’s mighty Royal Court Theatre before transferring to the West End was truly life-changing. And now, to open on Broadway, led again by the peerless John Lithgow, is truly the stuff of dreams - I can’t wait to share GIANT and Nick Hytner’s exceptional production with New York audiences.”

 "Being a part of GIANT from its inception has been the most challenging and exciting stage experience of my career,” said John Lithgow. “I play the central character of Roald Dahl, a man of dizzying complexity, on a day of crisis in his life. The story takes place forty years ago, but it resonates powerfully with events of our present day. No play I’ve ever been in has had such an impact on audiences. I am so proud and honored to play this part."

2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Fall 2025
Sept. 16--Art (Music Box)
Sept. 16--When the Hurlyburly's Done (Public)
Sept. 21--Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse) 
Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)
Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)
Sept. 28--And Then We Were No More (La Mama)
Sept. 29--Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Sept. 30--Caroline (MCC)
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 13--Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Oct. 14--Let's Love (Atlantic Theater Company)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 16--Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)
Oct. 28--Liberation (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 28--Romy and Michelle: The Musical (Stage 42)
Oct. 29--Bat Boy (Encores!)
Oct. 30--Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)
Nov. 5--Queens (MTC/City Center) 
Nov. 6--Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets (Broadhurst)
Nov. 9--The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Nov. 11--The Baker's Wife (CSC) 
Nov. 12--Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Nov. 13--Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 16--Chess (Imperial)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages)
Nov. 17--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 18--This World of Tomorrow (Shed)
Nov. 20--Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Longacre)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Cottonfield
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Practice (Playwrights Horizons)
Sugar Daddy

Winter 2025-26

Dec. 4--A Christmas Carol (Perelman Performing Arts Center)

Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)

Dec. 11--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse)

Dec. 16--Tartuffe (NYTW)

Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Jan. 8--Bug (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)

Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)

Feb. 1--Coriolanus (TFANA) (previews begin; opening TBA)

Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)

Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)

February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)

Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)

The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)

Jesa (Public)

Public Charge (Public)

The Reservoir (Atlantic Theater Company)

Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)

2026

Dolly: An Original Musical

Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026

March 5--What We Did Before Our Moth Days (Greenwich House Theater)

March 11--Giant (previews begin; opening date and theater TBA)

March 23--Hamlet (Teatro La Plaza/TFANA)

April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)

April 16--Proof (Theater TBA)

May 7--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)

May--The Emporium (CSC)

: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)

Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)

The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Dog Day Afternoon

Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)

Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

The Lost Boys (Palace)

Montauk

My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)

No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)

Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)

The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27

Death of a Salesman

Private Lives

Summer 2026

July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown

New Plays

The Balusters

Call Me Izzy

Cottonfield

Dog Day Afternoon

Giant

Liberation (transfer from Off-Broadway)

Little Bear Ridge Road

Montauk

Oedipus

Punch

New Musicals

Dolly: An Original Musical

The Lost Boys

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals

Art

Becky Shaw

Bug

Fallen Angels

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Marjorie Prime

Proof

Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals

Beetlejuice

Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Chess

Mamma Mia!

Ragtime

The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride

Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets