http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-2324-peter-brook/topic-rss.do Peter Brook RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23660668-barbican-festival-moves-east.do The Barbican is moving into the East End with a festival of live music at venues it has never before visited, it was announced 2009-03-11T10:22:14Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23604092-peter-brook-to-bow-out-of-paris-theatre-after-30-years.do Acclaimed theatre director Peter Brook has signalled his intention to start handing over the reins at the Paris theatre he has led for more than 30 years 2008-12-18T09:58:32Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23591285-the-sexiest-writer-in-town.do Tarell Alvin McCraney has been voted Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Here the young American reveals how a childhood of violence and abuse shapes his plays 2008-11-24T08:38:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23590006-sweeney-produces-londons-finest-pie.do Director Sasha Regan fills the tiny playing area for Sweeney Todd so cleverly that all of grey, sinister, stinking London is suggested. 2008-11-20T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23572441-magical-emotions-in-rusalka.do Dvorak's touching opera concerns a water nymph, Rusalka, who longs to feel human emotions. She quickly learns how love can be followed by betrayal. 2008-10-13T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23564347-southern-poetry-floods-in-the-red-and-brown-water.do In the Red and Brown Water indicates Tarell Alvin McCraney’s willingness to toy with the conventions of stagecraft. 2008-10-05T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23546687-beckett-short-changed.do Beckett's uncompromising stage poetry is almost entirely wasted, replaced instead by a lot of offputtingly mannered acting in Fragments. 2008-08-28T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23524146-scoop-up-the-free-theatre.do You get a spectacular historial riverside setting at The Scoop. The actors perform whatever the weather. And it's free. 2008-07-30T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23481127-best-little-theatre-in-london.do Mehmet Ergen has built Dalston's Arcola into a buzzing fringe venue that attracts big names. Now, he says, it's time to expand. 2008-04-29T10:08:36Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23477182-drawing-folk-in.do Molora examines a country that needs everyone to look within in order to heal. This is folk theatre at its most raw, says Claire Allfree. 2008-04-10T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23417810-confronting-a-genocide.do Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide. 2007-10-23T10:43:41Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23414193-the-man-who-made-us-love-macbeth.do London's most promising theatre director, Rupert Goold, takes a moment to talk about his latest show and future plans. 2007-09-28T10:18:10Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23413148-becketts-morsels-of-misery.do A quintet of short works from Samuel Beckett, Fragments is black and bleak - probably one for the melancholics to avoid. 2007-09-20T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23397719-brook-heads-young-vic-line-up.do Five Beckett plays by veteran director Peter Brook and a Rwandan take on the Holocaust are two of the highlights in the Young Vic's new season. 2007-05-23T10:05:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23395762-oppressors-that-steal-a-mans-identity.do Gently paced yet sharply felt, Athol Fugard's Sizwe Banzi is Dead, a quietly spoken indictment of the apartheid regime, reaches the parts most political protests don't reach. 2007-05-09T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23393919-emotional-pantomime.do Compared to Peter Brook's nine-hour production of Mahabharata for the 1985 Avignon Festival, Stuart Wood's three-hour version is a snip of a show. But, golly, how it sags, says Sarah Frater. 2007-04-25T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23386623-tears-sharpened-by-mirth.do Last week's death of Steven Pimlott, one of Britain's most versatile directors, tinged ENO's revival of his staging of La Boheme with a mood of elegy. 2007-02-23T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-23382934-battle-of-the-dames.do Two of Britain's best-loved actresses are leading our charge for Oscar success. But which one of these queens of stage will get the golden statue? Nick Curtis assesses the form. 2007-01-24T16:46:34Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23369428-young-vic-set-for-bold-new-drama.do The Young Vic reopens next week, its Waterloo base transformed by a striking renovation that plays to the building's strengths. 2006-10-03T10:47:24Z