Benedict Nightingale

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Benedict Nightingale
At a Critics' Circle lunch in April 2010
At a Critics' Circle lunch in April 2010
BornWilliam Benedict Herbert Nightingale
(1939-05-14) 14 May 1939 (age 84)
Paddington, London, England
OccupationJournalist, critic
NationalityBritish
EducationCharterhouse School
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
GenreTheatre criticism
SpouseAnne Redmon
Children3
ParentsEvelyn Gardner
Ronald Nightingale

William Benedict Herbert Nightingale (born 14 May 1939) is a British

Tunbridge Wells Advertiser in 1957, a production of Look Back in Anger by a local amateur group.[1]

He worked for

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He spent the whole of the 1983–84 season in New York, writing a series of Sunday theatre columns for The New York Times. His diary of the period was first published by Times Books in 1986 as Fifth Row Center: A Critic's Year On and Off Broadway.[2] He was appointed chief theatre critic for The Times in London in 1990, in succession to Irving Wardle
.

After two decades at The Times, on 1 June 2010, Nightingale was replaced by journalist Libby Purves. This, its consequences and Nightingale's career as a critic were discussed by Mark Shenton in his 26 January 2010 theatre blog for The Stage.[3]

In 2010, Nightingale published a novel, What's So Flinking Bunny: The Spoonerisms and Misadventures of Tristram Throstlethwaite. In 2012, he published Great Moments in the Theatre, which examined some of what he considered the greatest moments in the history of the artform, from Aeschylus' Oresteia to Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.[4]

Nightingale has contributed to many newspapers and journals, including

London Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Punch, The Sunday Times, and The Observer. He also appeared on radio and television.[5]

Family

Nightingale is the son of Ronald Nightingale, an estate agent,[6][7] and Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner, whom he wed in 1937; she had previously been married to the writer Evelyn Waugh. Benedict Nightingale has a sister, the landscape architect Virginia Nightingale.[8]

References

  1. ^ Nightingale, Benedict (15 May 2010). "Exit, pursued by memories". The Times. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  2. ISBN 978-0812912487
  3. ^ Shenton, Mark (26 January 2010). "Critical lightning strikes at the Thunderer…." Blogs.thestage.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  4. ^ Zinoman, Jason (18 February 2013). "Light Bulbs and Luminaries: Star Turns Onstage". The New York Times. Review of Great Moments in the Theatre.
  5. ^ Benedict Nightingale profile, writeaplay.co.uk, Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  6. ^ Hastings, Selina (5 November 1994). "The first MRS Evelyn Waugh". The Spectator Archive.
  7. ^ Nightingale, Benedict (2 July 2016). "He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn: How my mother became the first MRS Waugh". The Times.
  8. ^ Davie, Michael (15 March 1994). "Obituary: Evelyn Nightingale". The Independent. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

External links

  • Profile, theguardian.com; accessed 23 April 2014.
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