John Lithgow, who played Winston Churchill in The Crown and scores of major roles on stage and screen, is having the time of his life. He has a hit play on the London stage transferring into the West End in April — and to Broadway in 2026 — and now he’s starring alongside Olivia Colman in the Sundance opening-day premiere of Sophie Hyde’s terrific screen drama Jimpa, in which the multi-award-winning star plays a fictionalized version of his director’s own father…..
Giant, the new play by Mark Rosenblatt that Nicholas Hytner directed at the Royal Court last year to enormous success, transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre from April 26. Lithgow gives an unbelievably astonishing performance as Roald Dahl.
“And with all if all goes well, we’ll do it on Broadway too. It’s that good a play,” he boasts, with good reason.
It’s expected to have a substantial run at the Harold Pinter and likely will head to New York in 2026.
There’s been talk of a screen adaptation as well.
“Inevitably there are those conversations,” he says, “but I think there are sort of stations of the cross that a great property goes through — Royal Court, West End, Broadway — and then the logical next thing is some other medium. But it’s such a piece of theater. It is kind of hard to imagine it any other way at the moment. Who knows?”…