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St John's Wood theatre critic Blanche Marvin pays tribute to British theatre and film director Peter Brook who has died aged 97.

The Thin Edge | Peter Brook: a life re-inventing performance

Actor Kathryn Hunter heard the news of director Peter Brook’s death, last weekend at 97, in a telephone call from his longtime collaborator Marie

Patrick Stewart, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau and Tim Robbins on being challenged and inspired by the legendary theater maker, who died last weekend.

The Englishman, who passed away on July 2, was one of the greatest theatre directors of the 20th century

Tributes poured in from Oxford’s academic community at the weekend, following the death of theatre giant and Honorary Magdalen College Fellow…

Since 1968, Peter Brooks The Empty Space has been sending generations of theater makers for their pencil sharpeners.

Dr Faustus for a debut direction when barely a teen; performing Midsummer Night’s Dream under a circus tent with trapeze artistes to directing The Mahabharata with international artistes at Avignon against the backdrop of a stone quarry in France; Peter Brook, director, changed the lingo of th

The legendary British theatre director Peter Brook died on Saturday, age 97. His clarifying focus on what really matters in theatre can be felt across the spectrum of contemporary theatre.

Peter Brook, who has died aged 97, was among the most influential theater directors of the 20th century, reinventing the art by paring it back to dramas most basic and powerful elements.