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 Roundup: Pulitzer Prize-Winning ENGLISH Opens On Broadway
Roundabout Theatre Company's brings its production of Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English, directed by Knud Adams, to Broadway! The show officially opens tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...