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Rhys Ifans plays a troubled Welsh farmer in Hugo Blick's Last Word Monologues . Photo: .? Baby Cow 2008 Gordon Farrer July 10, 2009 The Last Word Monologues: Rhys Ifans ABC1, 10pm IN THE tradition of Alan Bennett's brilliant Talking Heads series of dramatic monologues comes this excellent three-part series by Hugo Blick.

IS THERE anything new in the theatre? Patrons of a certain age, like me, will remember the intimate revues of earlier years when a group of performers presented a programme of songs, dances and sketches.

The Music Hall announced today the balance of the 2009-2010 lineup in the new international partnership - National Theatre of London HD Broadcast Series.

THREE of Alan Bennett's popular Talking Heads monologues are being performed at Liverpool's Actors' Studio this month.

Some two years ago, Oregon Stage Works presented "Talking Heads," three playlets by British playwright Alan Bennett, brilliantly interpreted by Helena de Crespo, who enchanted audiences.

June 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for Amnesty International.

TWO of Alan Bennett's best-known monologues will be staged in Clitheroe on Saturday night.

On stage: - The Elden Street Players present Alan Bennett's Tony Award-winning drama, The History Boys, beginning Friday.

The playwright and author Alan Bennett has revealed for the first time the reason for his steadfast refusal to accept an honour from the Queen.

How many people have you met whose conversation is instantly publishable? There can never be more than a handful of such people living at any given time.

TALKING Heads.. And Other Parts is an evening dedicated to the work of Britain's favourite living writer, Alan Bennett including Bed Among the Lentils performed by Caitriona Mullan and A Chip in the Sugar performed by Jeremy Lewis.

Barely a stone will remain unturned when one of the worlda TMs most eminent directors of theatre, opera and film appears on stage at the Torch Theatre tonight, inviting his audience to join him on a journey Beyond the Fringe.

An acute eye for our foibles and fumblings has made him one of Britain's best-loved observers.

Bennett is a sharp-eyed satirist of contemporary England; it's time we stopped treating him like a warm tea cosy Comments None of this nancy rubbish ... Alan Bennett.

Alan Bennett, who turns 75 on Saturday, is a writer who captures the nuances of English life like no other.

Published: Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, May 1, 2009 at 12:06 p.m. "Talking Heads," by Alan Bennett.

Michael Gambon and Alex Jennings will play WH Auden and Benjamin Britten, respectively, in the world premiere of Alan Bennett's new play, provisionally titled The Habit of Art , which is due to receive its premiere at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in November.

The great Alan Bennett is an inspiration for Hunston's Deborah Amor, who is directing four of her own monologues for the Arundel Players.

The very fact that TimeLine Theatre managed to snag the rights for the Chicago premiere of Alan Bennett's "The History Boys" -- winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Tony Award for Best Play of the 2006 Broadway season -- says a great deal about this company.

As his new play, A Miracle, opens Russell Tovey reveals how a Billericay boy became friends with Alan Bennett Previous of Images Actor Russell Tovey, who starred in the History Boys Photo: JEFF GILBERT L to R: ...