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Alan Bennett is back in the habit with brilliant but flawed play

18.11.09
Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art is funny and sometimes brilliantly so, but strangely uninvolving.... more

Give teachers authority or betray our children

29.10.09
I was talking to a group of 12-year-olds about their life at school. One of them gazed at me with a puzzled demeanour and asked: "Why do teachers call thick children gifted?" The entire group looked at me knowingly... more

High camp, high art from Alan Bennett

13.10.09
In re-imagining the relationship between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten for his new play, Alan Bennett returns to a theme close to his heart.... more

Opening in London this week

12.10.09
The Hoerengracht exhibition opens at the National Gallery with The Habit of Art at the National Theatre.... more

Super Cooper: Dominic Cooper's Hollywood education

09.10.09
Dominic Cooper on his teenage cross-dressing, the dangers of dancing at the Oscars and that scandalous rehearsal-room romp.... more

Punk Rock: If Lord of the Flies met Skins

09.09.09
Punk Rock is an exploration of the volatility of adolescent life, its noxious snobberies and exhausting arguments... more

Brentford are on the up but face losing their loan stars

27.04.09
Football: Brentford skipper Alan Bennett led his team to the League Two championship title at Darlington - and then admitted his own future is in doubt... more

Only way is up for McGleish as Orient ease survival fears

09.03.09
Football: Scott McGleish is convinced Leyton Orient have turned the corner in their survival battle after their 2-1 win over Brighton... more

Enough Twittering – I need to Spotify

17.02.09
No sooner have we trundled onto the internet superhighway than we realise that there is always something revving up in the fast lane waiting to overtake us... more

Enjoy old-fashioned vulgarity

03.02.09
Alan Bennett's extraordinary, expressionistic comedy, Enjoy, proves such an unusual pleasure, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

After the snow, the blame game

03.02.09
With more people making it into work this morning, there is growing anger over the virtual collapse of London's transport system yesterday and its sluggish recovery... more

Playwright donates his life's work to Oxford's Bodleian

24.10.08
The author and playwright Alan Bennett has donated his life's work to one of Britain's leading libraries... more

Downturn: the long haul ahead

24.10.08
Today's official figures on UK growth are expected to confirm what most people now assume: that our economy is shrinking... more

Playwright makes plea on cycle paths

24.10.08
Alan Bennett is backing a campaign to extend cycle paths through all London's Royal Parks after his friend was fined for cycling illegally... more

Steadman breathes life into Alan Bennett flop

22.09.08
An Alan Bennett play that was a flop when premiered in London 28 years ago is coming back as a hit with Alison Steadman... more

Stars in their eyes: Host of celebrities auction specs for sight-saving charity

14.08.08
They have perched on the noses of politicians and poets. They have graced the famous faces of pop singers and Hollywood superstars.... more

Memories of home in 66a Church Road

11.08.08
Daniel Kitson has plumped for the homespun theatrical storytelling style of Alan Bennett. The result is the treat of the Fringe.... more

Underground meeting with a real-life Delphic sibyl

11.04.08
The sibyls of Greek antiquity, who reach far back beyond the Trojan War, Homer and Herodotus, were women inspired by the gods to prophesy... more

The Boys' triumphal return

08.01.08
Four seasons after its National Theatre premiere, The History Boys makes a stronger, more emotional impact in Paul Miller's capable production than ever.... more

Wit and wisecracks by the sea

16.07.07
With stars like Bill Bailey, Phill Jupitus, Michael McIntyre, Robin Ince and Alan Carr performing, there was laughter all round at Suffolk's Latitude Festival.... more

Tom's magnificent seven Tonys

11.06.07
Tom Stoppard's play has won seven Tony Awards on Broadway for his nine-hour epic The Coast Of Utopia. ... more

Suite nothings

19.04.07
Patricia Routledge stars in Office Suite, a double bill of what must be Alan Bennett's only example of third-rate comedy.... more

DVDs of the week

06.03.07
Borat, The History Boys, cult classic Performance and a mutant monster movie set in Korea are among this week's DVD releases.... more

Boys are back with a class act

04.01.07
Alan Bennett's The History Boys returns to London making a far stronger emotional impact than in 2004, leaving Nicholas de Jongh moved, disturbed and exhilarated.... more

A lesson in humanity

03.01.07
Alan Bennett's The History Boys has made theatrical history and happily there's another chance to see the play as a new cast settles into school life.... more

'This role has been quite an education'

13.10.06
Dominic Cooper must have known he was on to a good thing when he landed the role of Dakin in The History Boys but he can't have predicted just quite what a stroke of luck the casting would prove to be.... more

Boys run riot in the cinema

12.10.06
There are plenty of laughs in Nicholas Hytner's and Alan Bennett's film of their stage hit about a group of sixth-formers. But it still worked better as a play.... more

Not enough time for talking heads

04.10.06
The monologues in Gerturde's Secret speak of rich private lives - so it's a shame they each have less than 10 minutes to develop, says Fiona Mountford.... more

The Boys are back in town

28.09.06
The History Boys is a stage hit that took director Nicholas Hytner by surprise. Now he's turned it into a rollicking film, with the aim, he says, of getting closer to the characters.... more

Have you got the winning script?

22.09.06
Budding comedians are being given the chance to have their sketch performed alongside the likes of Eddie Izzard and Chevy Chase at the return of the Secret Policeman's Ball.... more

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