A Nice Coopa Tea With Alan Bennett
I don’t know of a funnier Englishman than Alan Bennett, or one who’s quite so quirkily, appealingly odd . He has us convulsed with laughter about peculiar things (and peculiar people). To see his very...
View ArticleAlan Bennett’s Cheats’ Charter Inspires Smashing New Play
The hit play of the London season is Alan Bennett’s hilarious and touching The History Boys , brilliantly directed by Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre, and I can only hope all the exciting talk...
View ArticleBennett’s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has...
View ArticleBennett’s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has...
View ArticleA Royal Appetite for Books
THE UNCOMMON READER By Alan Bennett Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $15 To read is to be slightly ill. And the symptoms only worsen when reading something good. A 19th-century novel, a Bleak...
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