Peter Brook, Legendary British Stage Director, Dies at Age 97

Peter Brook, a two-time Tony-winner, an Emmy-winner, Olivier Award, and recipient of distinguished honors for his contributions to the arts from Great Britain, France, Spain, India, and the United States, died on Saturday in Paris, as confirmed by his assistant. Brook was known for radical adaptations of Shakespeare, his theater treatise The Empty Space, the English-language production of Marat/Sade, directing the film version of Lord of the Flies, and the nine-hour (more with breaks!) adaptation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata. He was 97 years old. The London-born, Paris-based director was described as “an almost mystical figure often mentioned in the… Read Full Article