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Director Peter Brook and musicologist Richard Taruskin were transformative figures, and fixtures, in their fields. While alive they were too unalike — separated by age, temperament and activities — to tempt us to connect them in any way. Yet their deaths a day apart at the beginning of July placed…

Tom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; and Michelle Terry plays both the Fool and Cordelia to Kathryn Hunter’s Lear

The dancer reminisces the days she performed for the theatre visionary and the many ways in which he moulded her craft

There are epic and uneven shows from Olivier Py and Simon Falguières but Kirill Serebrennikov and Miet Warlop prove to be essential theatre voices

Composer of the James Bond theme who made a great contribution to British musicals in the 1950s and 60s

Letters: Simon Surtees on his memorable first meeting with the director, and Peter Rankin on his work on commercials and an appearance on Late Night Line-Up

I've been fortunate to have met a number of geniuses in my years as a theater critic but only one who was a true sage.

Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable

In our many meetings, the director’s conversation was as invigorating as the way he led audiences through the night in his staging of The Mahabharata

The theatre and film director has been remembered as a ‘giant of European theatre’.

Peter Brook, one of the world's most innovative theater directors who perfected the art of staging powerful drama in bizarre venues, has died aged 97, his publisher said on Sunday. The British director used the world as his stage mounting productions ranging from challenging versions of Shakespeare through international opera…