John Lithgow’s ‘Giant’ Producers In First Look Deal With Royal Court

EXCLUSIVE : London’s Royal Court Theatre has entered into an exclusive first-look deal with New York-based producers Brian and Dayna Lee .

The pair helped usher Mark Rosenblatt’s hit debut play Giant , featuring a blistering portrait of novelist Roald Dahl’s antisemitism by John Lithgow , from Sloane Square to the West End to Broadway , where it opens in March.

Will Young, the Royal Court’s Executive Director told us that the new long-term arrangement, which concerns work staged in the Court’s main Jerwood Theatre Downstairs stage, “felt like a really natural progression” in the relationship with the Lee’s AF Creative Media theater and film production company, which the Canadian-born couple run from their base in New York.

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