Olivier Awards 2025: Actor John Lithgow's Giant Among Big Winners

Giant, a play about Roald Dahl's anti-Semitism starring American actor John Lithgow as the truculent British children's author, was one of the big winners at the Olivier Awards 2025, Britain's equivalent of the Tonys.

- Alex Marshall

LONDON — Giant, a play about Roald Dahl's anti-Semitism starring American actor John Lithgow as the truculent British children's author, was one of the big winners at the Olivier Awards 2025, Britain's equivalent of the Tonys.

The play, which was staged at the Royal Court in 2024 and is transferring to the West End on April 26, took home three awards at the ceremony on April 6 at the Royal Albert Hall in London — Best Actor for Lithgow; Best Supporting Actor for Elliot Levey as a publisher trying to get Dahl to apologize for his statements about Jews; and the coveted Best New Play award.

For that final prize, Giant bested four other titles, including The Years, an acclaimed staging of a French woman's life (featuring a back-street abortion and late-in-life affair) that is running at the Harold Pinter Theatre until April 19.

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