Nostalgia, shame and gossip from Alan Bennett in the fourth instalment of his diaries ...

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 ...

The grump who rails against the world is a much-loved type, and British life has always been stiff with grouches. Scrooge was ...

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.

As an over seventy, I am officially exhorted to remain isolated, indoors,” Bennett notes wryly on 14 March 2020, “which is to ...

The Choral is a British historical drama directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Alan Bennett. It stars Ralph Fiennes as Dr Henry Guthrie and opens in US theatres on December 25, 2025. The film was ...

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 ...

Keith McNally had a long-running affair with top British playwright Alan Bennett as a young man, the Balthazar and Pastis restaurateur reveals in his new memoir. “I’ve had two homosexual relationships ...

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 ...

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 ...