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 ...

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 ...

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2006 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Frances de la Tour 2006 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding New Play Alan Bennett 2006 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Play Richard ...

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.

Adapted by Tony Award-winning British playwright Alan Bennett’s 1999 play of the same name, “The Lady in the Van” is a heartwarming film replete with dry wit and humor. The story is based on Bennett’s ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British author and playwright Alan Bennett will donate his literary archive to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the library said on Friday. The archive comprises letters, manuscripts ...

A play within a play about W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten structures this sex-spiked comedy for the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan. By Laura Collins-Hughes “Handbagged,” a ...