Alan Bennett's The History Boys to Play Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre
The National Theatre production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys has found its Broadway home. It will begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 14 in preparation for an April 23 official opening. The company from the National will appear in the show on the Great White Way.
The History Boys looks at 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 to 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 original National production featured at closing 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.
