{"id":523924,"date":"2026-06-08T02:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/523924\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:30:22","slug":"john-lithgow-wins-third-tony-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/523924\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lithgow wins third Tony Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lithgow wins third Tony Award<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">John Lithgow took home the first Tony Award Sunday night for \u201cGiant.\u201d A blockbuster revival of \u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d was racking up awards even before the halfway mark.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Lithgow won best lead actor in a play as children\u2019s author Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt\u2019s production set in 1983, when the author is facing intense backlash to his antisemitic comments. The role earned Lithgow his first Olivier Award in London and now the Tony for lead actor in a play, his third.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\"><strong>Video above: John Lithgow on &#8216;Hallmark Hall of Fame&#8217;, Broadway, 1986<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The win puts Lithgow in an exclusive group of actors who have won in three separate acting categories. He previously won featured actor in a play for \u201cThe Changing Room\u201d and lead actor in a musical for \u201cSweet Smell of Success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">\u201cTwo Tony bookends with 53 years between them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In those years, I have worked with hundreds of just fantastic theater artists. I\u2019ve had dozens and dozens of ecstatic moments on the stage, but I have to tell you right now, this moment has got to be one of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">A revival of \u201cDeath of a Salesman\u201d won at least five Tonys, nearing the record for most statuettes ever won by play revival, which is seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Lithgow wins third Tony Award NEW YORK \u2014 John Lithgow took home the first Tony Award Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,226251,18,226254,117,19,17,199474,188354,226253,28824,226249,226247,226252,226250,226248],"class_list":["post-523924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-eire","tag-email-weather-search","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-lithgow","tag-mpnd","tag-nowcast","tag-page","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-tony-award","tag-use-nextfre","tag-weekend-news-watch","tag-wjcl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116712140687165707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}