Sanaz Toossi’s “English” Comes to Broadway
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.
Testing Ground: Sanaz Toossi Brings Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play English to Broadway
I hate when we use the word family in theater, but I do make an exception for them,” Toossi tells me of that group. Funny, contemplative, and rather glamorous, she tells me that her cast is “just the most beautiful,
Video: Scenes from ENGLISH on Broadway
Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, directed by Knud Adams, is officially open at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Watch highlights from the show in this video!
‘English’ Review: Language and Limits in a Broadway Play
Sanaz Toossi’s buoyant, Pulitzer-winning drama follows a group of Iranians learning English, highlighting the desires and circumscribed circumstances that have brought them to the class.
‘English' Review: Pulitzer Winner Debuts on Broadway at the Top of the Class
Unlike casual language learners - say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo - for the characters in Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative. Set in Karaj,
Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In
For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.
‘English’: The Broadway Play Everyone Needs to See Right Now
Few are the standout gems—those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room as a performance progresses. Sanaz Toossi’s English, which opened tonight on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre (to March 2) in a co-production with the Roundabout Theatre Company,
'English' Broadway Review: Something Gets Lost in the Translation
I can empathize. As someone who takes four classes a week in four different foreign languages — it had been my way of getting through the pandemic — the subject of Sanaz Toossi's new play not only struck a nerve,
Review: Sanaz Toossi’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ at South Coast Rep traces the faltering dreams of young Iranian women
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of ...
Freedom in Speech: Sanaz Toossi’s English
Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its ...
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Set in Iran, Sanaz Toossi’s ‘English’ Is More a Study of the Power of Language Than of Geopolitics
The first thing one is likely to notice about the four women introduced in Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” now making its Broadway debut, is their accents. Ms. Toossi’s play, set inside a classroom at ...
This play about learning English is a timely and brilliant must-see
Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning drama, which ...
‘English’ Broadway Review: Pulitzer Winner Lives Up To Expectations In Superb Production
Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of ...
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Review: ‘English’ Speaks Eloquently of Language and Loss
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language ...
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Broadway Press Day with ‘English’
Playwright Sanaz Toossi, director Knud Adams and the cast share insights into the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ahead of its ...