Jonathan Miller, Acclaimed Theater Director and Writer, Dies at 85

Jonathan Miller, the British theater and opera director known for his radical restagings of classic works, died on Wednesday at his home in London. He was 85. His death was confirmed by his son William Miller, who said his father had Alzheimer’s disease. Although he was best known as a director, Miller was a man of many talents. He was regularly called a Renaissance man, and although he disliked the term, which he said was invariably used “by people unacquainted with the Renaissance,” it fit ...