"Film – Limited Release. Griffiths and de la Tour received BAFTA nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. The History Boys (film) The History Boys is a 2006 British comedy-drama film adapted by Alan Bennett from his play of the same name, which won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner, who directed the original production at the Royal National Theatre in London, and features the original cast of the play. The school scenes were filmed in Watford in two schools, Watford Grammar"
"Our Boys Our Boys is a comedy in three acts written by Henry James Byron, first performed in London on 16 January 1875 at the Vaudeville Theatre. Until it was surpassed by the run of ""Charley's Aunt"" in the 1890s, it was the world's longest-running play, up to that time, with 1,362 performances until April 1879. Theatre owner David James (1839–93) was Perkyn in the production. The production also toured extensively. The play contains the famous line, ""Life’s too short for chess."" The piece played in New York in 1875, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre, and in 1907 at"
"Bennett's critically acclaimed ""The History Boys"" won three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005, for Best New Play, Best Actor (Richard Griffiths), and Best Direction (Nicholas Hytner), having previously won Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor and Best Play. Bennett also received the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre. ""The History Boys"" won six Tony Awards on Broadway, including best play, best performance by a leading actor in a play (Richard Griffiths), best performance by a featured actress in a play (Frances de la Tour), and best direction of a play (Nicholas Hytner)."
"appeared as Inspector Henry Crabbe, disillusioned policeman and pie chef extraordinaire, in ""Pie in the Sky"", a role which was created specifically for him. He also made an extended appearance in the 2005 version of Charles Dickens' ""Bleak House"". In 2004, he originated the role of Hector (the teacher) in Alan Bennett's play ""The History Boys"", directed by Nicholas Hytner, winning the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. During the play's subsequent United States run, he added a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Tony Award. He reprised his role in the film version, which"
"and it was assisted by Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Palin, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench and Penelope Wilton. Richard Griffiths Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in ""The History Boys"". For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for"
"Our Boys (1993 play) Our Boys is a play in two acts written by the actor Jonathan Guy Lewis, credited under his nom de plume Jonathan Lewis, first performed in London on 13 May 1993 and subsequently performed in Derby and the Donmar Warehouse, London. It was being revived in the West End in October 2012. ""Our Boys"" was first performed in London on 13 May 1993 at the Cockpit Theatre and subsequently revived in a production that originated at Derby Playhouse (now known as Derby Theatre) and then transferred to the Donmar Warehouse where it ran from 11 April"
"""Master Harold""...and the Boys ""Master Harold""...and the boys is a play by Athol Fugard. Set in 1950, it was first produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre in March 1982 and made its premiere on Broadway on 4 May at the Lyceum Theatre, where it ran for 344 performances. The play takes place in South Africa during apartheid era, and depicts how institutionalized racism, bigotry or hatred can become absorbed by those who live under it. It is said to be a semi-autobiographical play, as Athol Fugard's birth name was Harold and his boyhood was very similar to Hally's, including his"
"play ""Howard Katz"" at the National Theatre. He also performed in ""His Girl Friday"" and ""His Dark Materials"" there. In 2004, he took the role of Rudge in Alan Bennett's play ""The History Boys"" at the Royal National Theatre as well as touring to Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong and playing the role in the radio and film adaptations. He originally auditioned for the role of Crowther but agreed to act the part of Rudge after Bennett promised to beef up the role. Insecure because he had not attended drama school like many of his peers, he enrolled in"
"Stephen Campbell Moore Stephen Campbell Moore (born Stephen Moore Thorpe; 30 November 1979) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the Alan Bennett play ""The History Boys"" and its subsequent film. Stephen Campbell Moore was born in London as Stephen Moore Thorpe, he was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire (appearing locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival) and trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, alongside Orlando Bloom, where he was awarded the Gold Medal in his final year. He made his screen debut in Stephen Fry's ""Bright Young Things"". He is primarily a"
"Peter Mochrie and Jacinta John. The same year he was named Australia's Youngest theatre producers, He also won the Sydney Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Award. Beejan was asked by the Melbourne Theatre Company to perform in their main-stage production of The History Boys written by Alan Bennett and directed by Peter Evans. The production played a sold out season at The Arts Centre. The production featured other Australian actors such as Matthew Newton, Ashley Zukerman and Ben Geurens. Beejan has performed in stage plays by William Shakespeare, Michael Gow, David Hare, Bertold Brecht, Debra Oswald, Ned Manning, Cyril Tourneur, Thomas"
"riveting puzzle,"" and it has also been described as a ""dark farce"" and an ""absurd exploration of history and the horrific times we live in."" His other plays include ""Minutes"", a fictional encounter between Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler; ""Soldier Boys"" about Czar Nicholas's 1827 edict to recruit Jews into the Russian army for the first time, including children as Cadets, which had a reading at Theater for the New City with Judd Hirsch as the Czar; and ""Open Rehearsal,"" chosen by Edward Albee as first runner-up in the inaugural 2006-2007 Yale Drama Series Competition, He also wrote the screenplay"
"on the Hot 100 are listed. <br>Frankie Valli ""solo"" singles are also not listed but can be found here. ""Jersey Boys"", a musical play based on the lives of the Four Seasons and directed by Des McAnuff (""The Who's Tommy"", ""700 Sundays)"", premiered at his La Jolla Playhouse and opened on November 6, 2005 to generally positive reviews. It subsequently won multiple Tony Awards after its move to Broadway. The original cast included John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli, Daniel Reichard as Bob Gaudio, Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito, and J. Robert Spencer as Nick Massi. The play portrays the"
"Rose, born in March 2015. In February 2018, Foy confirmed that the couple had separated. Stephen Campbell Moore Stephen Campbell Moore (born Stephen Moore Thorpe; 30 November 1979) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the Alan Bennett play ""The History Boys"" and its subsequent film. Stephen Campbell Moore was born in London as Stephen Moore Thorpe, he was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire (appearing locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival) and trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, alongside Orlando Bloom, where he was awarded the Gold Medal in his final year."
"screen actor. On stage he has performed with the RSC and the Royal National Theatre. Campbell Moore created the role of Irwin in the original West End stage production of Alan Bennett's play ""The History Boys"", and also played the character in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions and in the film version of the play. Alan Bennett, participating in a question and answer session with the play's director, Nicholas Hytner, said: ""I think, of the three teachers, Stephen Campbell Moore, who plays Irwin, has the hardest job because he doesn't have the audience's sympathy until two thirds"
"take the story to the stage. However, Gaudio and Valli still had final say on whether to end the show if they didn't like it. ""Jersey Boys"" premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse at University of California, San Diego, in an out-of-town tryout on October 5, 2004, and ran through January 16, 2005 Christian Hoff, David Norona, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer played The Four Seasons. At the end of the tryout, Norona, who originated the role of Frankie Valli, was replaced by John Lloyd Young, who originally had auditioned for the role of Tommy DeVito. The musical began"
"Richard Griffiths Richard Thomas Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in ""The History Boys"". For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He is also known for his portrayal of Vernon Dursley"
"and Cleopatra"", in which she did a nude walk across the stage. In 2004, she played Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's ""The History Boys"" at the National and later on Broadway, winning both a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She would also later appear in the film version. In December 2005, she appeared in the London production of the highly acclaimed anti-Iraq War one-woman play ""Peace Mom"" by Dario Fo, based on the writings of Cindy Sheehan. In 2007, she appeared in a West End revival of the farce ""Boeing-Boeing"". In"
"was the precursor to garage, punk and grunge. He has also written a book about surfing, ""Extreme Surfing"" which was published in 2012. His book ""Coin Collecting for Kids"" was published in 2000. A later publication, ""The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure"" is aimed at 9 and 10 year olds. In December 2014 15th through to the 21st, his play ""Stratford Characters"", a story about local historical figures was running at Square One Theater in Connecticut. Along with other productions, it received critical praise in mid 2015. A short play he wrote was run acted out at"
"The Guys The Guys is a play by Anne Nelson about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. In the play, Joan, an editor, helps Nick, an FDNY captain, prepare the eulogies for an unprecedented number of firefighters who died under his command that day. The play debuted off-Broadway at The Flea Theater on December 4, 2001, directed by Jim Simpson and starring Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray. Since 2001, ""The Guys"" has been presented in 48 US states and in the Czech Republic, Argentina, Japan, Italy and Poland. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon presented it at"
"He wanted adults to come away thinking ""wow, the layers of meaning in that!"" The play covers the British history of the last 1000 years. It is a musical, and is interactive. The plot revolves around 7 kids who start the play with tensions and conflict amongst themselves. They begin to reenact scenes from history due to the drama teacher Miss Game wanting to make history more fun (the unseen yet villainous history teacher Master Minde foreshadows a horrible test). The kids have parallels to the historical characters they play - and often share the same first name. As the"
"The Men from the Boys The Men From The Boys is a 2002 play by Mart Crowley. A sequel to the off-Broadway production ""The Boys in the Band"", ""The Men From The Boys"" takes place in a New York City apartment, where friends are in for more than they expected after a friend's memorial service. The plot follows the characters of ""The Boys in the Band,"" revisiting them 35 years later. The group is brought back together at the funeral of Larry, who died of pancreatic cancer. They revisit the same apartment in Manhattan as the first play, and again"
"The Boys (1998 film) The Boys is a 1998 Australian drama film directed by Rowan Woods. The screenplay by Stephen Sewell is based on the play by Gordon Graham, with Graham influenced by the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby, with the play first performed by Griffin Theatre Company under the direction of Alex Galeazzi. After serving time in prison for an assault on a liquor store employee, Brett Sprague is released from prison and returns home to his two brothers and his and their girlfriends, mother and stepfather. Things have changed, and as Brett begins to drink his way through"
"Minnie's Boys Minnie's Boys is a musical with a book by Groucho Marx's son Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher, music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Hal Hackady. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the early days of the Marx Brothers and their relationship with their mother Minnie Marx, the driving force behind their ultimate success. After an unusually long preview period lasting for sixty-four performances, during which the creators constantly tinkered with the troubled show, the Broadway production, directed by Stanley Prager and choreographed by Marc Breaux, opened on March 26, 1970 at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran"
"the play is made in the British TV series ""Little Britain"", in which a schoolmaster finishes the morning roll call with ""Unman, Wittering and Zigo absent"", while Alan Bennett credits Giles Cooper and the play's influence in his creation of ""The History Boys"". Unman, Wittering and Zigo Unman, Wittering and Zigo is a 1958 radio play by the Anglo-Irish playwright Giles Cooper. The play is a thriller set in a traditional boys' boarding school where a senior form master has just been killed in a tragic accident. The main character is John Ebony, a teacher in his first job, brought"
"The Cryptogram The Cryptogram is a play by American playwright David Mamet. The play concerns the moment when childhood is lost. The story is set in 1959 on the night before a young boy is to go on a camping trip with his father. The play premiered in 1994 in London, and has since been produced Off-Broadway in 1995 and again in London in 2006. ""The Cryptogram"" was originally produced in July 1994 at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, starring Eddie Izzard and Lindsay Duncan and directed by Gregory Mosher. ""The Cryptogram"" opened at the American Repertory Theater, Boston in"
"to have ""resisted 35 years of social potential personal change,"" and that they remained single, ""predatory,"" and ill-suited for long-term relationships. It also criticized what it perceived as the use of characters as ""authorial mouthpieces"" for outdated and racist sentiments. Decker's production was also criticized for its staging and ""ill-conceived"" apartment set. It praised Duffy for the best acting, with Michael portrayed as ""poisonous yet occasionally poignant."" The Men from the Boys The Men From The Boys is a 2002 play by Mart Crowley. A sequel to the off-Broadway production ""The Boys in the Band"", ""The Men From The Boys"""
"centuries, have doubted the attribution. The modern critical consensus favours the view that the play was written by Thomas Middleton, citing internal evidence from the text of the play. Cases for the authorship of Thomas Heywood or George Wilkins have been made, but have convinced few commentators. The title page of the quarto claims that the play was first acted by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre (though these sources are not always reliable). No other record of historical performance exists. In the modern age, edited adaptations of the play have been performed by the Birmingham Repertory Company (1958,"
"play was produced by ArtsPower National Touring Theatre, and in September 2008 through May 2009, toured the U.S. The original cast included David Beck as Jacob, Kristen Johnson as Katy, Andrew Dawson as Dr. Thatcher, and Mary C. McLellan as Peggy. In January 2009, Ashleigh Catsos replaced Johnson as Katy Thatcher. The production was very well received by both students and adults. The Silent Boy The Silent Boy was written by Lois Lowry and was published in 2003. Categorized as both a young adult novel and historical fiction, ""The Silent Boy"" is set in a 20th-century farm community. The story"
"running from May 25, 2004 to July 25, 2004, for 70 performances. Directed by Daniel J. Sullivan the cast included Ben Shenkman as Jonathan, Laura Linney as Patricia, and Byron Jennings as Nick. Linney was nominated for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. Ben Brantley of ""The New York Times"" wrote: Mr. Margulies, the author of ""The Loman Family Picnic"" and ""Dinner With Friends"", has never been merely a satirist. His plays are usually about how time and memory transform feelings,"
"then has been bought at a significant price. In hindsight, there would have been a bunch of things that I would have said no to. In an interview, Ferguson described his relationship with the left: ""No, they love being provoked by me! Honestly, it makes them feel so much better about their lives to think that I'm a reactionary; it's a substitute for thought. 'Imperialist scumbag' and all that. Oh dear, we're back in a 1980s student union debate."" Ferguson was the inspiration for Alan Bennett's play ""The History Boys"" (2004), particularly the character of Irwin, a history teacher who"
"The Slab Boys Trilogy The Slab Boys Trilogy is a set of three plays by the Scottish playwright John Byrne. The trilogy was originally known as ""Paisley Patterns"". The three plays which make up the trilogy are: The Slab Boys, Cuttin' a Rug, and Still Life. The trilogy tells the story of a group of young, urban, working-class Scots during the period 1957–1972. ""The Slab Boys Trilogy"" was revived in 2003 by the Traverse Theatre starring Paul Thomas Hickey and Iain Robertson in the lead roles. This is the first time that the Traverse Theatre have ever done a revival"
"plot evolves, the children's relationships develop, and they begin to become more tolerant of one another. They end up giving Master Minde a history test; only it is about ""interpretations of history...not about facts"", so he fails and is knocked unconscious. Taking his mask off, it is revealed that he was in fact Miss Game in disguise. According to Terry Deary's website, the play ""broke box-office records when it opened at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre in Summer 1999."" Horrible Histories: The Mad Millennium The Mad Millennium is a Horrible Histories musical play written by Terry Deary and first performed in 1999."
"and Players Theatre. It has since been showcased at many events publicizing African-American history. No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs (2000) is an American play by John Henry Redwood. Set in Halifax, North Carolina in around 1949, the play dramatizes the unfortunate times of an African-American family, the Cheeks, and their encounter with a Jewish writer, Yaveni Aaronsohn. The title refers to a placard said to have been put by the road at the entrance to a town in Mississippi. In 1949, Jewish writer Yaveni Aaronsohn is in Halifax, North Carolina. He is researching"