Alan Bennett's The History Boys Heading to Broadway in April 2006

Alan Bennett's The History Boys, which is currently playing at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre, will come to Broadway in April 2006 after a six-week Australian tour and two stops in the United Kingdom. The entire National Theatre company is expected to make the trip to Gotham, although a deal with Actors' Equity has yet to be made, according to Variety.

The History Boys consists of an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university, a maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. There is also a headmaster obsessed with results, and a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. Staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it.

The show garnered the Evening Standard, Critic's Circle and Olivier Awards for Best Play. Director Nicholas Hytner also won the Olivier Award for his work. The cast currently includes Samuel Anderson, Tom Attwood, Samuel Barnett, Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Sacha Dhawan, Rudi Dharmalingam, Richard Griffiths also an Olivier winner for his work, Andrew Knott, Clive Merrison, Jamie Parker, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Russell Tovey and Frances de la Tour.

The History Boys will be the fourth property brought to America by Boyett Ostar Productions since the company established a first-look deal with the National Theatre in fall 2003. The producing group is also responsible for the Broadway productions of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Michael Frayn's recently shuttered Democracy and Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.