By MARK KENNEDY

NEW YORK (AP) — John Lithgow is returning to Broadway in a play that might change the way we read bedtime stories to our kids.

The two-time Tony Award-winner will star as Roald Dahl in “Giant,” which explores accusations of antisemitism against the beloved writer of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Matilda” and “James and the Giant Peach.”

“You go back and read his writing after seeing the play and you see dark strains in it, which you knew were there,” says Lithgow. “But you suddenly see it in a different light when you see this play.”

“Giant,” by director-turned-playwright Mark Rosenblatt, won the Olivier Award earlier this year for best new play in London and earned Lithgow his first Olivier. Performances begin in New York on March 11.

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