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Richard Pilbrow, doyen of stage lighting who shaped the design of the National Theater – obituary

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Richard Pilbrow in front of the unfinished National Theater on the South Bank in 1974: ‘my heart still aches that our National Theater will contain more actor-friendly spaces’, he said later – Evening Standard Richard Pilbrow, who has died aged 90, was the doyen of British theater lighting designers and one of the last survivors … Read more

our Lebedev Award winner on his new creative streak, and why he’ll never lead the National

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Sam Mendes (Matt Licari/Invision/AP) Before I meet Sam Mendes in the memorabilia-strewn office of his Neal Street production company in Covent Garden, I email him an excerpt from our last interview, 31 years ago, in GQ. It shows him on the same street as he was about to reopen the Donmar Warehouse in 1992. He’s … Read more