The History Boys 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
The Boys Who Cried Wolf the North American premiere. Wan-joo (Park Jong-hwan), enraged at being replaced by another actor, quits theatre school and now works as a role play in "real-life". One day, a woman asks him to be a witness for her son's murder case. Desperate for money for his mother's surgery, he agrees. When he realizes his false testimony implicates an innocent young man as the murderer, and discovers the murdered victim is an orphan and the woman who hired him isn't who she claims to be, he decides to search for the truth. "The Boys Who Cried Wolf" is director Kim Jin-hwang's