I don’t know of a funnier Englishman than Alan Bennett, or one who’s quite so quirkily, appealingly odd . He I don’t know of a funnier Englishman than Alan Bennett, or one who’s quite so quirkily, ...

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 ...

As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916. By Glenn Kenny A play within a play about W.H.

“I have always loved the old” are some of the first voiceover words we hear from idealistic young Dr. Valentine (Bally Gill) as he heads off to work in “Allelujah,” Richard Eyre’s film (premiering at ...

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Playwright Alan Bennett has had the habit of art for at least 50 years -- ever since he burst on the scene in the satirical 1960 revue Beyond the Fringe. The 75-year-old has written dozens of plays ...

The BBC has dusted off British playwright Alan Bennett’s famous series of Talking Heads monologues and is remaking them for the coronavirus age with a head-turning cast. Killing Eve actress Jodie ...

It's such a joy to read new Miracleman. Real Miracleman. Proper Miracleman, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham. The pressure on the pair must be fairly huge to match up with what they left off thirty ...

As Britain's National Health Service hits 70, Bennett's new play, his first in five years, pines for a past that never really existed. Fifty years after his play “Forty Years On,” Alan Bennett is ...

'I love old people': Bally Gill (right) with Judi Dench in 'Allelujah' In apparently solitary charge of this "cradle-to-grave" hospital, or at least the ward on view, is Jennifer Saunders (pictured ...

It is unusual that Alan Bennett’s “The Habit of Art” has taken such a long time to arrive in New York. Bennett is, after all, the Tony-winning author of “The History Boys” and “The Madness of George ...