Alan Bennett has been a welcome chipper-in to British cinema over the past 40 years, but he is now 91, and his latest project is the first since 1984’s A Private Function to have actually originated ...

Across seven decades, Alan Bennett has revealed a great deal of himself through plays and screenplays. In 1994, with the publication Writing Home, his first volume of diaries, culled from the London ...

In “The Choral,” Ralph Fiennes plays Dr. Henry Guthrie, a talented and demanding musician hired by a small Yorkshire town’s amateur choral society when they lose their chorusmaster to World War I.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Bennett once said that “if you live to be 90 in England and can still eat a boiled egg, they think you deserve the Nobel ...

Nicholas Hytner directs Alan Bennett's screenplay about a British choral society during World War I. By Frank Scheck It’s hard to avoid the feeling that you’re sitting in a venerable West End theater ...

Bennett is 82 now, and lives much of the time in NW1 – the very street once home to the Lady in the Van, who parked in his front garden, in a neighbourhood memorialised in the Mark Boxer comic strip, ...

Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett’s masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain’s ...

SMUT, by Alan Bennett. Picador, 152 pp. $14 paper. In "Smut," a devilishly charming pair of novellas, Alan Bennett introduces us to two fusty middle-aged women and sets them on a course for ...

The Play's The Thing, a professional theatre company based in Milton Keynes, is bringing Alan Bennett's iconic 'Talking Heads' to UK audiences showcasing two of the collection's most beloved ...