{"id":34356,"date":"2019-11-27T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=34356"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:42:10","slug":"respected-theatre-director-jonathan-miller-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/respected-theatre-director-jonathan-miller-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Respected theatre director, Jonathan Miller, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The West End is suffering a great loss tonight after theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller died after a long battle with Alzheimers, the BBC reported.<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">All at The Royal Opera are saddened to hear of the death of director Jonathan Miller<\/p>\n<p>Miller was one of the most important figures in British theatre and opera of the past half century who shone a unique light on our art form<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LJFqrU80Je\">https:\/\/t.co\/LJFqrU80Je<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Royal Opera (@TheRoyalOpera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRoyalOpera\/status\/1199658506514845697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in London in 1934, Miller was a man of many talents &#8211; an acclaimed author, photographer, sculptor, broadcaster, director and certified doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Miller gained his fame in Beyond the Fringe in 1960 after studying medicine at Cambridge. The show premiered at 1960 Edinburgh Festival and transferred to West End and Broadway.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words: Derrian Douglas<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Peter Lewicki on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West End is suffering a great loss tonight after theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller died after a long battle with Alzheimers, the BBC reported. All at The Royal Opera are saddened to hear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":34359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42],"tags":[553,579,725,800,1047,1768,1861,2119,2128,3376,3769,4611,4660,5578,6287,6538,6753,6863],"class_list":["post-34356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-entertainment","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-bbc","tag-beyond-the-fringe","tag-broadway","tag-death","tag-director","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-jonathan-miller","tag-london","tag-old-vic-theatre","tag-opera","tag-shakespeare","tag-theatre","tag-uk","tag-voice-of-london","tag-west-end"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}