Alan Bennett has explained how he guarded his sexuality for much of his career to avoid being pigeonholed as a gay playwright. Bennett, one of Britain's most respected writers, is best known for The ...

UPDATE with Golden Globe nomination: Maggie Smith was nominated this morning in the Golden Globes category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for The Lady In The ...

There is indeed a lady and a van in “The Lady in the Van,” but the title is nonetheless misleading. It might more appropriately have been called “Playwright Alan Bennett and the Living, Breathing ...

“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 ...

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, ...

When Alan Bennett's whopping 700-page omnibus of picked-up pieces landed on my desk, I considered giving it a pass. But how could I resist after happening upon this diary entry from 2005, which reads ...

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, ...

How many Broadway shows has Alan Bennett been in? Alan Bennett has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Alan Bennett been in? Alan Bennett has not appeared in the West End.

Alan Bennett, author of The History Boys and The Madness of King George, among countless other books, plays and memoirs, is a grand old man of British letters. "I'm getting on now, and I'm thought of ...

EXCLUSIVE: It was a swell way to spend an evening. The champagne (and elderflower cocktails) flowed as did witty banter. At ...