“Sometimes I think you can only speak one language,” says a character in Sanaz Toossi’s English ... has enormous teeth,” Omid observes, in his accented English, about Julia Roberts.

The Broadway transfer of Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which ... by Roya’s thick accent.) And though Omid (Hadi Tabbal) is already glib in English and sounds fully American to everyone else ...

The first thing one is likely to notice about the four women introduced in Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” now making its Broadway ... “It is feeling like yes,” Elham retorts. Then there’s Omid, the sole ...

All of those threads are deftly woven through “English,” an intimate yet profoundly resonant drama by Sanaz Toossi ... And why does Omid (Hadi Tabbal), who speaks almost as well, need to ...

It was the Muslim travel ban imposed by the U.S. government in early 2017 that prompted playwright Sanaz Toossi to write “English” in the first place. “I was furious and I was devastated ...

While the action moves in a realistic register, Toossi captures the bilingual quality of the text with a neat theatrical device: when characters speak English, they have an accent, either light or ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.

Their dreams, frustrations and secrets come to the forefront. Will “English only” expand or limit what they truly want to say? This comic and heartfelt play about language and identity won ...

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.