Auden, Britten and Rothko in ‘The Habit of Art’ and ‘Red’

NYTimes.com: "Straight lines have never been part of the geometry of Alan Bennett, a writer known for his endearingly corkscrew approach to matters erudite. But with his “Habit of Art,” an amiable dodge of a play that imagines a late-life meeting between the poet W. H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, he never seems to stop circling his subject. And you start to wonder if it’s because he’s afraid of not getting it right."