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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fourth screen collaboration between writer Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner is a pleasant, low-key wartime tale that's most interesting when it pushes against cozy expectations. At first ...