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 in the Band (play) called his wife. The audience never learns what Alan intended to discuss with Michael in the end. "The Boys in the Band" was written entirely by American playwright Mart Crowley. In 1957 Crowley had started working for a number of television production companies, before meeting Natalie Wood on the set of her film "Splendor in the Grass" while working as a production assistant. Wood hired him as her assistant, primarily to give him ample free time to work on his gay-themed play "The Boys in the Band". Wood, Crowley's close friend, inspired him to move from New York to Hollywood.