“In recent decades in New York, Peter Brook was a questing favorite at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Theatre for a New Audience…Friends and colleagues who worked with him on this side of the Atlantic, and theater makers who never met him but look reflexively to his tenets — including openness and presence in the moment — spoke by phone this week about Brook’s impact as an artist and a human being. These are edited excerpts from those interviews.”
The New Yorker: “The Tragedy of Coriolanus” in Winter Culture Preview
October 31, 2025
“In 2026, our theatre-makers look at politics, if obliquely: Shakespeare’s coup-adjacent drama ‘The Tragedy of Coriolanus’ may feel disturbingly relevant