The Latest Breaking News from Alan Bennett

Author Russell Edwards believes Moors murderer Ian Brady may have been trying to create a Swastika with the burial sites of his victims that was never finished

Alan Bennett, the brother of the 12-year-old Moors murder victim Keith Bennett, said police have not yet found his siblings' remains as part of a new dig in moorland

While the empire slipped away, society swung and privacy withered, she was steadfast, putting duty above all else

The monarch was sympathetically depicted by dramatists and at a 1999 production of Oklahoma! her eyes lit up when she recalled her own theatrical outings

It’s back and we couldn’t be more excited

Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government’s days are numbered

After two years of pandemic programming, with performers and audiences moved into virtual online venues, the Edinburgh International Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with the best possible birthday present – the return of a full programme of live performances.

Other lives: Actor and writer whose plays were broadcast on BBC radio and staged around the world

From Jerusalem and Pretty Woman to a 70s Alan Bennett farce, unreconstructed attitudes and old-fashioned smut still permeate British theatre. And irony is not much of a defence