"The History Boys The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged before it closed on 1 October 2006. The play won multiple awards, including the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. The play opens in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys' grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play"
"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)."
"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"
"history of the Four Seasons in four parts, with each part narrated by a different member of the band and supposedly reflecting that band member's perspective on the band's history. The author of the book of the play, Rick Elice, interviewed Valli, Gaudio, and DeVito in writing the play, and pieced together Nick Massi's point of view based on those interviews (Massi had died before the play was written.) The Broadway production won four 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Actor (for John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli), Best Featured Actor (for Christian Hoff as Tommy DeVito), and Best"
"work on the original production of ""The History Boys"". He was nominated for the 29th annual Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role. He won a 2006 Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for his work on the Broadway production. Barnett was nominated for the 2006 British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer (On Screen) for his work on the film version of ""The History Boys"". In 2014, Barnett received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his work in ""Twelfth Night"". Barnett is in a"
"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."
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"the Edinburgh Festival. It enjoyed a commemorative rerun at the Flea Theater in 2006 on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. In parts of the theatrical run the two roles were played by Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver. They also star in a 2002 film adaptation, for which Weaver was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for best performance by an actress. The play was published by Dramatists Play Service and Random House in 2002. The audible.com recorded version, which featured Bill Irwin and Swoosie Kurtz, won an Audie Award for best recorded play of the year. The Guys The Guys"
"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"
"concerns a group attempting to save a historic skyscraper from being demolished. Auburn is best known for his 2000 play ""Proof"", which won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He adapted it into a film, which was released in 2005. His play ""The Columnist"" had its world premiere in a production by the Manhattan Theatre Club on Broadway, running from April 3, 2012 through June 3, 2012 and starring John Lithgow with Boyd Gaines, Margaret Colin, Stephen Kunken, Marc Bonan, Grace Gummer and Brian J. Smith with direction by Daniel"
"Mark Henderson (lighting designer) Mark Henderson (born 1957) is a British lighting designer who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for ""The History Boys"". Henderson began his Broadway career with a 1986 comedy revue starring Rowan Atkinson. His Broadway credits include revivals of ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1989), ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1990), ""Hamlet"" (1995), ""The Iceman Cometh"" (1999), ""The Real Thing"" (2000), ""Faith Healer"" (2006), and ""A Moon for the Misbegotten"" (2007), and the original productions of ""Indiscretions"" (1995), ""Copenhagen"" (2000), ""Decocracy"" (2004), ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" (2005), and ""Deuce"" (2007). In the UK,"
"The following year the theatre hosted a new production of Joanna Murray-Smith's play ""Honour"" starring Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis and Natascha McElhone, which ran between 7 February and 6 May 2006. It later hosted the West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's hit production of Stephen Sondheim's musical ""Sunday in the Park with George"", which starred Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell and ran till September. Between December 2006 and April 2007, the theatre presented the West End commercial transfer of Alan Bennett's National Theatre hit ""The History Boys"" which played to sell-out houses during its run until April 2007."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"years on Stage celebration. Mark Henderson (lighting designer) Mark Henderson (born 1957) is a British lighting designer who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for ""The History Boys"". Henderson began his Broadway career with a 1986 comedy revue starring Rowan Atkinson. His Broadway credits include revivals of ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1989), ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1990), ""Hamlet"" (1995), ""The Iceman Cometh"" (1999), ""The Real Thing"" (2000), ""Faith Healer"" (2006), and ""A Moon for the Misbegotten"" (2007), and the original productions of ""Indiscretions"" (1995), ""Copenhagen"" (2000), ""Decocracy"" (2004), ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" (2005), and ""Deuce"""
"2014, the album has sold 1.4 million copies in the US. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Actor (John Lloyd Young), Best Featured Actor (Christian Hoff) and Best Lighting (Howell Binkley). Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the Grammy-winning cast album for the Broadway musical ""Jersey Boys"", the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. The album was produced by original Four Season, Bob Gaudio. Principal vocals include Christian Hoff as ""Tommy DeVito,"" Daniel Reichard as ""Bob Gaudio,"" J. Robert Spencer as ""Nick Massi"" and John Lloyd Young"
"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"
"author writes as though he simultaneously envies the extrovert characters he has created, yet is happy to stand apart from them. Hector's classes ramble, but manage to inspire the boys to the extent that they are pleased to adopt his approach to learning, and contentedly go along with his eccentric behaviour. The film is peppered with literary references and carries an encouragement to engage with life. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures named ""The History Boys"" one of the Top Ten Films in its 2006 awards. The film was nominated for the 2007 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding"
"of ""Peggy Sue Got Married"". Gaudio was instrumental in mounting ""Jersey Boys,"" a musical play based on the lives of the Four Seasons, which ran at the La Jolla Playhouse through January 2, 2005 and then opened on Broadway on Nov. 6, 2005 to mostly positive reviews. In 2006, the play won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In 2007, it won a Grammy in the Best Musical Show Album category. Gaudio is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. On February 3, 2009, Gaudio received his high school diploma, 50 years after dropping out of Bergenfield High School."
"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"
"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"
"A film version of ""The History Boys"" was released in the UK in October 2006. Bennett wrote the play ""Enjoy"" in 1980. It was one of the rare flops in his career and barely scraped a run of seven weeks at the Vaudeville Theatre, in spite of the stellar cast of Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Susan Littler, Philip Sayer, Liz Smith (who replaced Joan Hickson during rehearsals) and, in his first West End role, Marc Sinden. It was directed by Ronald Eyre. A new production of ""Enjoy"" attracted very favourable notices during its 2008 UK tour and moved to the"
"a deck boy and his circumnavigation of the globe and the ""Bath Detective"" thriller trilogy. In 2006, he gave a ""Platform"" talk on history writing and teaching at the National Theatre as a prelude to Alan Bennett's play ""The History Boys"" and a new stage play set in the London of 1912. His study of the British monarchy and its future was published in spring 2014 and his book on Royal Ceremony and Regalia is to be published early 2015. In 2011 he edited an official single-volume abridgment of Winston Churchill's four-volume ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"". He is"
"Broadway in May 2006 and received a 2006 Tony Award nomination for Best Play. The finale of the Aran Islands trilogy. Unproduced and unpublished, it is ""a portrait of an ageing writer with declining skills"". A writer in a non-specified totalitarian state is interrogated over the content of several of his Brothers Grimm-style short stories. The play was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2004 and received a 2005 Tony Award nomination for Best Play. A play in which the character of Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for a quarter of a"
"The Sunshine Boys The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway in 1972 and later adapted for film and television. The play's protagonists are Al Lewis and Willie Clark. Lewis and Clark were once a successful vaudevillian comedy duo known as the Sunshine Boys. During the later years of their 43-year run, animosity between the partners grew to the point where they ceased to speak with each other. Eleven years prior to the events of the play, Al retired from show business, leaving Willie struggling to keep his career afloat. Willie, now an old"
"PBS drama, “‘Master Harold’...and the boys,” written by Athol Fugard, produced by Michael Brandman, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and starring Tony-award winning actors John Kani, Matthew Broderick, and Zakes Mokae. Deborah Oppenheimer Deborah Oppenheimer is an American film and television producer. She won an Academy Award in 2001 for best documentary feature for producing """" (2000). The film was written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, released by Warner Bros., and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Judi Dench narrated. In 2014, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport was deemed ""culturally, historically,"
"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"
"2014, in Manchester, Vermont. The Wendy Wasserstein Papers, 1954–2006, are available to researchers at the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections. The finding aid for this collection is available online at http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm325_main.html . Wendy Wasserstein Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play ""The Heidi Chronicles"". Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife,"
"to win consecutive Tony Awards for his two-part """". Terrence McNally repeated this feat the following two years with his plays ""Love! Valour! Compassion!"" and ""Master Class"". Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. ""All My Sons"" has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller."
"for its outstanding theater program. Their success in the arts was recognized by Mel Brooks, who granted the school to be the first ever to gain rights to the smash hit musical ""The Producers"" in Spring 2008. The Edward R. Murrow chess team has won seven national championships, fifteen state titles and sixteen city championships. The Edward R. Murrow HS chess team's success has been chronicled in the book The Kings of New York, by sportswriter Michael Weinreb. The Kings of New York follows the 2005 championship-winning season of the Murrow Team. It was reviewed positively in the March 4,"
"winner is determined by Andrew Morse, the prize's benefactor. James Kirkwood Jr. James Kirkwood Jr. (August 22, 1924 – April 21, 1989) was an American playwright, author and actor. In 1976 he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the Broadway hit ""A Chorus Line"". Kirkwood was born in Los Angeles. His father James Kirkwood Sr. was an actor and director in silent films and his mother was actress Lila Lee. After their divorce, he spent much of his time with his mother's family in Elyria,"
"1971. Gilroy's three sons, from his marriage to sculptor/writer Ruth Dorothy Gaydos, are involved in the film industry. Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy are screenwriters and directors, while John Gilroy is a film editor. Frank Gilroy died on September 12, 2015 in Monroe, New York. Frank D. Gilroy Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director. He received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ""The Subject Was Roses"" in 1965. Gilroy was born on October 13, 1925, in New"