Benedict Nightingale is a British journalist and the regular theatre critic of The Times newspaper. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.